athematics is, at its core, an art. Like painters, musicians or writers, mathematicians create and explore new worlds. They ...

For centuries, the concept of infinity has captivated mathematicians and philosophers alike, stretching far beyond the simple idea of endless counting. Recent groundbreaking discoveries, however, have ...

When mathematician Georg Cantor first glimpsed the true nature of infinity, it changed mathematics forever. He demonstrated that infinity isn’t just endless—it exists in different sizes, each opening ...

The “ultrafinitists” who seek to abolish the use of infinity in mathematics reminded me of the influential Dutch mathematician L. E. J. Brouwer, renowned for proving Brouwer’s fixed-point theorem. He ...

The big thinkers at Aperture explore infinity and the different ways it appears in mathematics and physics.