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The Fine art of the Infinite calls for infinity, in its many guises, as a touchstone for understanding mathematical thinking. Robert and Ellen Kaplan guide us through the "Republic of Figures," where we meet both its upstanding residents and its own more shadowy dwellers; and travel us over the plane of geometry into the unlikely world where parallel lines meet. The voyage is enriched by deft figure studies of great mathematicians (and evenly colorful smaller ones). So that as we go deeper into infinity, we explore the most serious puzzle of mathematics: Are its key points eternal truths that we discover? Or ones that we invent?