Rachel Trubowitz, an English professor at the University of New Hampshire, spoke about how the widespread acceptance of ...

Last time, we talked about how the whole and the part can have the same number of elements. To compare infinities, we just ...

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When Ed Scheinerman's 7-year-old granddaughter asked the question that every mathematician secretly loves—"What is the number before infinity?"—he knew he was onto something. "You're not going to like ...

Measuring the kinetic energy of a speeding car works because that value has a floor: it can’t drop below zero. The same goes for momentum in a subatomic particle. Mathematicians describe these ...

Although it has ancient roots, the meaning of infinity remains baffling, and it seems to have absolutely no bearing on everyday life. The mathematics of infinity is complex, but it isn’t simply a very ...