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Beyond infinity : an expedition to the outer limits of mathematics / Eugenia Cheng. by Cheng, Eugenia. Basic Books, 2017. Call #: 511.3 C518b Subjects Infinite.   Mathematics. ISBN:  9780465094813 (hc.) Alternate title:  Expedition to the outer limits of mathematics Description:  x, 284 p. : ill., photographs, charts ; 22 cm. Notes:  Includes index. Contents:  Part One. The Journey -- What Is Infinity? -- Playing with Infinity -- What Infinity Is Not -- Infinity Slips Away from Us Again -- Counting Up to Infinity -- Some Things Are More Infinite than Others -- Counting Beyond Infinity -- Comparing Infinities -- What Infinity Is -- Part Two. The Sights -- Where Is Infinity? -- Things That Are Nearly Infinity -- Infinite Dimensions -- Infinite-Dimensional Categories -- The Infinitesimally Small -- When Infinity Nearly Caused Mathematics to Fall Apart (and Maybe Also Your Brain) -- Weirdness -- Where Infinity Is. Summary:  In Beyond Infinity, musician, chef, and mathematician Eugenia Cheng answers the question - what would you call something small enough to fit in your head but too large to fit in the world, or even the universe? - by taking readers on a startling journey from math at its most elemental to its loftiest abstractions. Beginning with the classic thought experiment of Hilbert's hotel, the place where you can (almost) always find a room, if you don't mind being moved from room to room over the course of the night, she explores the wild and woolly world of the infinitely large and the infinitely small. Along the way she considers weighty questions like why some numbers are uncountable or why infinity plus one is not the same as one plus infinity. She finds insight in some unlikely examples: planning a dinner party for 7 billion people using a chessboard, making a chicken-sandwich sandwich, and creating infinite cookies from a finite ball of dough all tell you more about math than you could have imagined. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 511.3 C518b Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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