The following is an excerpt from Beyond Infinity: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics, by Eugenia Cheng Mathematics can be thought of as many things: a language, a tool, a game. It might ...

TO MOST OF US, INFINITY LOOMS AS THE END OF the mathematical affair, the final and ineffable conclusion of a process that begins with the articulation of one, two, three. Infinity is the number that ...

One of the first numbers you learned as a kid was infinity. Perhaps you’ve also heard the typical six-year-old ask for infinity-plus-one cookies or minutes before bedtime. But what is the mathematical ...