Beyond Infinity: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics
Language: English
Published by Basic Books, 2018
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Cheng] does a great service by showing us non-mathematician schlubs how real mathematical creativity works. -- Wall Street Journal How big is the universe? How many numbers are there? And is infinity + 1 is the same as 1 + infinity? Such questions occur to young children and our greatest minds. And they are all the same question: What is infinity? In Beyond Infinity, Eugenia Cheng takes us on a staggering journey from elemental math to its loftiest abstractions. Along the way, she considers how to use a chessboard to plan a worldwide dinner party, how to make a chicken-sandwich sandwich, and how to create infinite cookies from a finite ball of dough. Beyond Infinity shows how one little symbol holds the biggest idea of all.
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- Title
- Beyond Infinity: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics
- Author
- Eugenia Cheng
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Publication year
- 2018
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1541644131
- ISBN 13
- 9781541644137
“Cheng does a great service by showing us non-mathematician schlubs how real mathematical creativity works." —Wall Street Journal
Imagine something small enough to fit in your head but too large to fit in the world—or even the universe. What would you call it? And what would it be? How about infinity?
Mathematician Eugenia Cheng has some answers. Whether pondering why some numbers are uncountable, or why infinity plus one is not the same as one plus infinity, Cheng takes readers on a staggering journey from math at its most elemental to its loftiest abstractions. Along the way she considers how you could use a cheeseboard to help plan a dinner part for 7 billion people, what it would mean to make a chicken-sandwich sandwich, and whether you could create infinite cookies from a finite ball of dough (the math says yes!).
An essential book on the universe’s biggest possible topic , Beyond Infinity will beguile and bewitch you, and show how one little symbol— ∞ —can hold the biggest idea of all.
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