infinity

[Mariogs379]

hey there,
any of you guys know any good books for infinity and its applications in math like infinite sets, advanced limits stuff, sequences/series etc...?
thanks,
mario

[Speedlimits]

Get back to saving the princess man.

Luigi-

[FortunaMaximus]

Michio Kaku or Brain Greene.

Read. Hilarity ensues. You're back to where you started.

[BiPolar_Nut]

The Mystery of the Aleph by Amir D. Aczel was a good read for me. One chapter talks about Cantor's work with transfinite numbers. Other chapters address paradoxes and other infinity-related problems to ponder. Another chapter explores nubers being entities in and of themselves, not tools created by man.

It gets "out there" at times, but was still very interesting to those that ponder infinite nubers, sets, distances, powers, etc.

[FortunaMaximus]

Check out "The Man who knew Infinity: A Life of the genius Srinivasa Ramanjuan" by Robert Kangiel

Wiki: Srinivasa Ramanujan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan)

Prodigy from India, came to Cambridge, published 30 theorems in a 4-year span, most without proofs. And proofs are still being made for them in present day, in physics and crystallography.

[Wubbie075]

Kaku rocks.. I took a couple of classes with him in college... lots of fun...