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Infinity: New Research Frontiers

9781107003873

Infinity: New Research Frontiers

  • ISBN 13:

    9781107003873

  • ISBN 10:

    1107003873

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 02/07/2011
  • Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

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Summary

This interdisciplinary study of infinity explores the concept through the prism of mathematics and then offers more expansive investigations in areas beyond mathematical boundaries to reflect the broader, deeper implications of infinity for human intellectual thought. More than a dozen world-renowned researchers in the fields of mathematics, physics, cosmology, philosophy and theology offer a rich intellectual exchange among various current viewpoints, rather than displaying a static picture of accepted views on infinity. The book starts with a historical examination of the transformation of infinity from a philosophical and theological study to one dominated by mathematics. It then offers technical discussions on the understanding of mathematical infinity. Following this, the book considers the perspectives of physics and cosmology: can infinity be found in the real universe? Finally, the book returns to questions of philosophical and theological aspects of infinity.

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