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A starry firmament, or sand cascading through one’s open fingers, or weeds springing up time after time: the first conception of infinity, of the uncountable and the unending, is not recorded, but it ...

When mathematician Georg Cantor first glimpsed the true nature of infinity, it changed mathematics forever. He demonstrated that infinity isn’t just endless; it exists in different sizes, each opening ...

The first column I wrote in this space, if memory serves, was about infinity. It was an introduction to the charming but mythical Hotel Infinity, where you can always check in and never leave. Years ...

Amanda Gefter repeats a common fallacy about infinite universes: the assumption that “everything that can happen will happen – an infinite number of times” (6 March, p 28). There are many – ...

Ian Stewart has an easy, if not particularly helpful, way of envisaging infinity. “I generally think of it as: (a) very big, but (b) bigger than that,” says the mathematician from the University of ...

You must have come across the word ‘infinity’. Maybe you’ve heard it in Marvel’s universe (Marvel movies), where ‘infinity stones’ (the most powerful gems) control time, space and reality. But in real ...