Is there an infinity of infinities? The question sounds almost absurd, like a child’s riddle meant to twist your brain into ...

Infinity used to be the place where mathematics ran out of road, a hazy horizon rather than a mapped landscape. Now a pair of ...

Mathematicians have discovered a new infinity, one that is so strange that it could change how we understand logic, numbers ...

Infinity Squared Mathematics, a non-profit founded by high school seniors, promotes problem-solving skills and bridges the ...

Yaroslav Sergeyev has invented a new kind of arithmetic and patented the "infinity computer" in the U.S. and Europe. Yaroslav Sergeyev, one of Russia’s most prominent mathematicians and a ...

Cheng (How to Bake π), a scientist in residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and honorary fellow at Sheffield University, tackles some difficult concepts in this superb study of the ...

Hardly anyone saw the film The Man Who Knew Infinity in theaters, at least in American theaters. It was well-received in India and will probably cause us to see more UK/India crossover films such as ...

Last week, my first grader came home with thoughts about math (I love it when she does that!) She said that, since one hundred plus ten was “one hundred and ten”, that, therefore, infinity plus ten ...

Several years ago, I tried to explain infinity to a class of fifth graders. In the story that I told them, I was preparing to eat a piece of cake when a friend walked in on me. Being polite, I gave ...

The equal sign is the bedrock of mathematics. It seems to make an entirely fundamental and uncontroversial statement: These things are exactly the same. But there is ...