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Consider something small enough to fit in your mind but too big to fit in the world - or even the universe. What would you call it? And what would it be? How about...infinity? In Beyond Infinity, musician, chef, and mathematician Eugenia Cheng answers this question by taking listeners on a startling voyage from math at its most elemental to its loftiest abstractions. Beginning with the typical thought test of Hilbert's hotel - the place where you can (almost) always find an area, if you don't mind being moved from room to room during the period of the night time - she explores the untamed and woolly world of the infinitely large and the infinitely small. On the way she considers weighty questions like why some figures are uncountable or why infinity and something is different then one plus infinity. She finds insight in a few unlikely samples: planning a social gathering for seven billion people utilizing a chessboard, making a chicken-sandwich sandwich, and creating infinite cookies from a finite ball of dough all tell you more about math than you might have imagined. An irresistible reserve on the universe's biggest possible issue, Beyond Infinity will beguile and bewitch you and show most of us how one little image - ∞ - can take the biggest notion of all.
