Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in ...

This is what happens when you mess with infinity. You might think that if you simply started adding the natural numbers, 1 plus 2 plus 3 and so on all the way to infinity, you would get a pretty big ...

Professor Raúl Rojas has published a book about how symbols have been used throughout history in mathematics. The work was ...

In Math, we often talk of how a function behaves as a variable approaches limits at infinity. That is, if we let “x” take on larger and larger values, what happens to the value of “y” it creates? It ...

Our universe appears to be bound by a finite set of laws, yet we often talk about things that go on for an eternity. “Infinity” is a strange idea. But it’s crucial if you want to understand anything ...

Hardly anyone saw the film The Man Who Knew Infinity in theaters, at least in American theaters. It was well-received in India and will probably cause us to see more UK/India crossover films such as ...

Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly / עיון: רבעון פילוסופי, כרך‎ 61, חוברת‎ 2, Mathematical Knowledge and Its Applications: In Honor of Mark Steiner (January–July 2012), pp. 129-148 (20 pages ...

“THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY” — 3½ stars— Jeremy Irons, Dev Patel, Toby Jones, Stephen Fry, Jeremy Northam; PG-13 (thematic elements and smoking); in general release Math is seldom the most popular or ...

The Hearst Movie & A Martini group responded to “The Man Who Knew Infinity” much more favorably than most of the critics did. The would-be prestige hit about an Indian mathematics genius (Dev Patel), ...