{"id":102066,"date":"2020-02-08T00:06:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T08:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/beyond-infinity-an-expedition-to-the-outer-limits-of-mathematics"},"modified":"2020-02-08T00:06:23","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T08:06:23","slug":"beyond-infinity-an-expedition-to-the-outer-limits-of-mathematics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/beyond-infinity-an-expedition-to-the-outer-limits-of-mathematics","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Infinity: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/beyond-infinity-an-expedition-to-the-outer-limits-of-mathematics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>O.o!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<b>A mind-expanding and funny trip to the edge of mathematics<\/b><\/p>\n<p>How big is the universe? How many numbers are there? And is infinity + 1 is the same as 1 + infinity? Such questions occur to young children and our greatest minds. And they are all the same question: What is infinity? In <i>Beyond Infinity<\/i>, Eugenia Cheng takes us on a staggering journey from elemental math to its loftiest abstractions. Along the way, she considers how to use a chessboard to plan a worldwide dinner party, how to make a chicken-sandwich sandwich, and how to create infinite cookies from a finite ball of dough. <i>Beyond Infinity<\/i> shows how one little symbol holds the biggest idea of all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O.o! A mind-expanding and funny trip to the edge of mathematics How big is the universe? How many numbers are there? And is infinity + 1 is the same as 1 + infinity? Such questions occur to young children and our greatest minds. And they are all the same question: What is infinity? In Beyond [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}