This book is an exploration of philosophical questions about infinity. Graham Oppy examines how the infinite lurks everywhere, both in science and in our ordina

A philosophical exploration of the origin and limits of the modern world.

"The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept

The book contains popular expositions (accessible to readers with no more than a high school mathematics background) on the mathematical theory of infinity, and

Mancosu offers an original investigation of key notions in mathematics: abstraction and infinity, and their interaction. He gives a historical analysis of the t