This is an installment of Reading Reddit, a Slate pop-up blog about Reddit. In the beginning, there was 1. Then, there was 2. Soon after that, there was 3, and 4, and ...
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Maths researchers find 2 new infinities that could rewrite the rules
Infinity used to be the place where mathematics ran out of road, a hazy horizon rather than a mapped landscape. Now a pair of ...
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 ...
The other day, my four-year-old son asked me, point blank: —Dad, can you count to infinity? —No son, you can't, it would take forever. —But what's infinity minus three?" —It's infinity, too. —But how ...
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