Big Question ABSTRACT

How do we study infinity?

There’s a difference between in the connotative definition of infinity from a mathematical perspective and a philosophical perspective. Infinity isn’t something vague or unapproachable, but rather something with a precise definition that lies in the core of modern mathematics. To philosophers, infinity’s hugeness beyond reach becomes paradoxical to a certain extent.

The study of infinity first was thought to be believed that Archimedes, an ancient Greek philosopher, thought of. It was then studied after by many scholars but one impacts our studies today and he was an Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan, in the early 1900’s. 

Study of infinity can be only theorized. when there’s infinitive amount of space, there’s infinite amount of possibilities. However, space is not considered to be infinity because there’s only so much of it and each inch is a space of a larger space. It’s just like infinity. There’s three degrees of infinity, each one gradually getting larger. If infinity is something we know goes on eternally, how can there be something that’s larger and more massive than eternity?