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Is it perfectly sensible or fundamentally incoherent to speak of completing a task with infinitely many steps?

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How unexpected difficulties in a practical measurement problem challenged fundamental conceptions of length and led to a new theory of dimension, while…

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An ancient puzzle leads ultimately to a remarkable observation on the malleable nature of infinite sums

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All the numbers, placed in a curious order

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The mathematics and philosophy of the infinite

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