Lower Mathematics by Judy Brackett

Lower Mathematics by Judy Brackett

published in Commonweal Magazine, January 2021

The little boy shouts "To infinity and beyond!" and asks "Where the heck is infinity?" and "Is a googol bigger than a gazillion?" and "How can there be a biggest number? Doesn't the whole entire world

have room for 1 or 2 or 3 more?" and "How can there be something littler than zero?" She tells him—snowflakes, grains of sand, chess moves, broken promises, teardrops and raindrops, stars and un...