Infinity
Subtitle: A Very Short Introduction
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9780198755234
Description: In this 'Very Short Introduction', Ian Stewart discusses infinity in mathematics while also drawing in the various other aspects of infinity and explaining some of the major problems and insights arising from this concept. He argues that working with infinity is not just an abstract, intellectual exercise but that it is instead a concept with important practical everyday applications, and considers how mathematicians use infinity and infinitesimals to answer questions or supply techniques that do not appear to involve the infinite.