Infinity used to be the place where mathematics ran out of road, a hazy horizon rather than a mapped landscape. Now a pair of new, exotic infinities is forcing researchers to redraw that map and ...

For centuries, the concept of infinity has captivated mathematicians and philosophers alike, stretching far beyond the simple idea of endless counting. Recent groundbreaking discoveries, however, have ...

One question has preoccupied humankind for thousands of years: Do infinities exist? More than 2,300 years ago Aristotle distinguished between two types of infinity: potential and actual. The former ...

Infinity contains everything, including multiple kinds of infinities. Mathematicians have long known that there are many kinds of infinities (technically, there are an infinity of them).

Could it be that the number zero is another infinity? Does a perfect vacuum exist? Does absolute zero temperature really exist? It seems to me that both the physical and the mathematical worlds are ...

Your article on infinity deals with very large and very abstruse concepts of it. But what about smaller, everyday infinities? The number pi is something we use often enough, but it can only be ...