The Art of the Infinite by Robert Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan, Oxford University Press, $26, ISBN 019514743X, Penguin, £20, ISBN 0713996293 Reviewed by Ben Longstaff
HOW often have you waited “forever” for your train? We carelessly name-drop infinities yet rarely consider their true immensity. There are even different sizes of infinities – infinitely many, in fact – of which the ones we usually invoke are only the smallest. Happily, mathematicians have thought deeply about what endlessness really entails and, as The Art of the Infinite amply illustrates, doing so is well worth the effort.
Authors Robert Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan clearly relish…
