Archive - Infinitely More

What is the largest tweetable number?

Joel David Hamkins

20 hr ago

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

Joel David Hamkins

Jan 19

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

Joel David Hamkins

Jan 13

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

Joel David Hamkins

Jan 7

All the numbers, placed in a curious order

Joel David Hamkins

Jan 2

The mathematics and philosophy of the infinite

Joel David Hamkins

Jan 2

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