The Art of the Infinite by Robert Kaplan
Author:Robert Kaplan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2014-04-08T16:00:00+00:00
Chapter Eight
Back of Beyond
This has been the romance of imagination and the infinite. Like the beloved in tales as old as time, the infinite keeps escaping imagination’s stratagems, drawing it on through intrigues that must any moment surely untangle. Mathematics being the stuff of invention and mathematicians each Alcibiades in disguise, why not just declare (since faint heart never won fair lady): here is the infinite, right here, in your midst. You have only to recognize it to make it yours.
Easily said, but how is it to be done? Think of Euclid’s plane everywhere stretching away, with its parallel lines that meet at no “here” you can picture—unless it be through Alberti’s Veil.
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