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Infinity: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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Infinity: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
Series: Very Short Introductions
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Infinity is an intriguing topic, with connections to religion,
philosophy, metaphysics, logic, and physics as well as mathematics.
Its history goes back to ancient times, with especially important
contributions from Euclid, Aristotle, Eudoxus, and Archimedes. The
infinitely large (infinite) is intimately related to the infinitely
small (infinitesimal). Cosmologists consider sweeping questions
about whether space and time are infinite. Philosophers and
mathematicians ranging from Zeno to Russell have posed numerous
paradoxes about infinity and infinitesimals. Many vital areas of
mathematics rest upon some version of infinity. The most obvious,
and the first context in which major new techniques depended on
formulating infinite processes, is calculus. But there are many
others, for example Fourier analysis and fractals. In this Very
Short Introduction, Ian Stewart discusses infinity in mathematics
while also drawing in the various other aspects of infinity and
explaining some of the major problems and insights arising from
this concept. He argues that working with infinity is not just an
abstract, intellectual exercise but that it is instead a concept
with important practical everyday applications, and considers how
mathematicians use infinity and infinitesimals to answer questions
or supply techniques that do not appear to involve the infinite.
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