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Beyond Infinity

Beyond Infinity

An Expedition to the Outer Limits of the Mathematical Universe

by Eugenia Cheng
Paperback
Publication Date: 24/04/2018

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Inside the weird and wonderful world of infinity, from endless hotels to bottomless cookie-jars.

Even small children know there are infinitely many whole numbers - start counting and you'll never reach the end. But there are also infinitely many decimal numbers between zero and one. Are these two types of infinity the same? Are they larger or smaller than each other? Can we even talk about 'larger' and 'smaller' when we talk about infinity?

In Beyond Infinity, international maths sensation Eugenia Cheng reveals the inner workings of infinity. What happens when a new guest arrives at your infinite hotel - but you already have an infinite number of guests?

How does infinity give Zeno's tortoise the edge in a paradoxical foot-race with Achilles? And can we really make an infinite number of cookies from a finite amount of cookie dough?

Wielding an armoury of inventive, intuitive metaphor, Cheng draws beginners and enthusiasts alike into the heart of this mysterious, powerful concept to reveal fundamental truths about mathematics, all the way from the infinitely large down to the infinitely small.

ISBN:
9781781252864
9781781252864
Category:
Mathematics
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
24-04-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
Profile Books Limited
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
304
Dimensions (mm):
196x128x22mm
Weight:
0.25kg
Eugenia Cheng

Eugenia Cheng is Honorary Fellow in Pure Mathematics at the University of Sheffield and Scientist in Residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

She was educated at the University of Cambridge and did post-doctoral work at the Universities of Cambridge, Chicago and Nice. Since 2007 her YouTube lectures and videos have been viewed over a million times.

A concert pianist, she also speaks French, English and Cantonese, and her mission in life is to rid the world of maths phobia. She is the author of How to Bake Pi.

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