the infinity heresy

While philosophers have struggled with the concept of infinity for millenia, mathematicians claim to have tamed it. In so doing they uncovered many curious properties such as continuity, limits, convergent series---even different size infinities. However, like Santa Claus and the unicorn, none of these things exist in the real universe.

See The Infinity Heresy for more details.

Ralph Buchholz

14 February 2004