Infinity : new research frontiers /
This interdisciplinary study of infinity explores the concept through the prism of mathematics and then offers more expansive investigations in areas beyond mathematical boundaries to reflect the broader, deeper implications of infinity for human intellectual thought. More than a dozen world-renowne...
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2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Infinity as a transformative concept in science and theology / Wolfgang Achtner
- The mathematical infinity / Enrico Bombieri
- Warning signs of a possible collapse of contemporary mathematics / Edward Nelson
- The realm of the infinite / W. Hugh Woodin
- A potential subtlety concerning the distinction between determinism and nondeterminism / W. Hugh Woodin
- Concept calculus : much better than / Harvey M. Friedman
- Some considerations on infinity in physics / Carlo Rovelli
- Cosmological intimations of infinity / Anthony Aguirre
- Infinity and the nostalgia of the stars / Marco Bersanelli
- Infinities in cosmology / Michael Heller
- God and infinity : directions for future research / Graham Oppy
- Notes on the concept of the infinite in the history of Western metaphysics / David Bentley Hart
- God and infinity : theological insights from Cantor's mathematics / Robert J. Russell
- A (partially) skeptical response to Hart and Russell / Denys A. Turner.
