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 ...

One question has preoccupied humankind for thousands of years: Do infinities exist? More than 2,300 years ago Aristotle distinguished between two types of infinity: potential and actual. The former ...

Could it be that the number zero is another infinity? Does a perfect vacuum exist? Does absolute zero temperature really exist? It seems to me that both the physical and the mathematical worlds are ...