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Beyond infinity : an expedition to the outer limits of mathematics

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A mathematician and scientist in residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago helps readers explore the concept of infinity through unique concepts including chessboards, a chicken-sandwich sandwich and the creation of infinite cookies from an infinite dough ball.

Author(s): Eugenia Cheng
Publisher: Basic Books
Year: 2017

Language: English
Pages: 284
City: New York
Tags: Infini;Mathématiques

Part one. The journey --
1. What is infinity? --
2. Playing with infinity --
3. What infinity is not --
4. Infinity slips away from us again --
5. Counting up to infinity --
6. Some things are more infinite than others --
7. Counting beyond infinity --
8. Comparing infinities --
9. What infinity is --
part two. The sights --
10. Where is infinity? --
11. Things that are nearly infinity --
12. Infinite dimensions --
13. Infinite-dimensional categories --
14 . The infinitesimally small --
15. When infinity nearly caused mathematics to fall apart (and maybe also your brain) --
16. Weirdness --
17. Where infinity is.