Tag: infinity
What if Infinity Didn’t Exist?
Some Mathematicians Don’t Believe in Infinity Can “finitism” possibly describe the real world? By Manon Bischoff edited by Daisy Yuhas One question has preoccupied humankind for thousands of years: Do infinities exist? More than 2,300 years ago Aristotle distinguished between two types of infinity: potential and actual. The former deals with abstract scenarios that would…