Somewhere in the dark recesses of prehistory, somebody realized that numbers never end. And with that thought, infinity was born. It’s the numerical counterpart of something deep in our psyches, in our nightmares of bottomless pits, and in our hopes for eternal life. Infinity lies at the heart of so many of our dreams and fears and unanswerable questions: How big is the universe? How long is forever? How powerful is God? In every branch of human thought, from religion and philosophy to science and mathematics, infinity has befuddled the world’s finest minds for thousands of years. It has been
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