Book:Brian Clegg/A Brief History of Infinity

Brian Clegg: A Brief History of Infinity: The Quest to Think the Unthinkable

Published $\text {2003}$, Robinson

ISBN 1-84119-650-9

Subject Matter

• Infinity

Contents

Acknowledgements

1 To Infinity and Beyond

2 Counting on Your Fingers

3 A Different Mathematics

4 The Power of Number

5 The Absolute

6 Labelling the Infinite

7 Peeking under the Carpet

8 The Indivisible Mystery

9 Fluxion Wars

10 Paradoxes of the Infinite

11 Set in Stone

12 Thinking the Unthinkable

13 Order versus the Cardinals

14 An Infinity of infinities

15 Madness and Sanity

16 Infinitesimally Small

17 Infinity to Go

18 Endless Fascination

References

Index