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The photo would have been more relevant with How to Bake Pi, by the same author, but that‘s not the book I'm reading at the moment!

This is a popular introduction to mathematical infinity: how it makes sense to talk about numbers larger than any finite number; how "infinitely small" numbers gave us calculus; connections to analysis, geometry and category theory(!); and counterintuitive results, like objects with finite volume but infinite cross-section. Fun and very accessible-- I'd give this to an interested high school student.

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Infinity is a Loch Ness monster, capturing the imagination with its awe-inspiring size but elusive nature.

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The attributes ‘equal‘, ‘greater‘, and ‘less‘ are not applicable to infinite, but only to finite quantities.

In algebra the mind is first taught to consider general truths, truths which are not asserted to hold only of this or that particular thing, but of any one of a whole group of things. It is in the power of understanding and discovering such truths that the mastery of the intellect over the whole world of things actual and possible resides; and ability to deal with the general as such is one of the gifts that a mathematical education should bestow

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This is really clever! I never really thought about how hard it is to explain the concept of “infinity” to kids, but it is. And this helped my 6-year old to understand. About 2/3rds of the way through he yelled, “It‘s like a circle. It never ends!” It was like a lightbulb went off in his head. So cool to see.

That our thoughts and feelings are really just chemical transfers in 2.8 pounds of electrified pâté.