infinity

Von Foerster and his co-authors then projected these historical figures into the future, calculating that thanks to ever-increasing growth, in the year 2026 our numbers would near infinity.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

Her trademark polka dots covered entire galleries and giant sculptures, and she also used mirrors and lights to create the effect of shapes and patterns disappearing into infinity.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

The "polka dot queen" channelled hallucinations and battles with mental health into vibrant art featuring her trademark dots, nets and infinity motifs over a career spanning decades and continents.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

Victor Hugo once remarked that history must neglect many particulars of the past, or else “the infinity would overwhelm it.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

The real numbers are a bigger infinity than the rational numbers.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

When scientists use general relativity to calculate collisions at extremely high energies near the Planck scale, the math stops working properly and produces infinities.

From Science Daily ● May 19, 2026

Brian and Robin consider the mind-bending idea of multiple infinities.

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2024

And when they did the calculations for that theory, all the terms that had infinities before didn’t have infinities anymore.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 5, 2022

After more than three centuries of effort, the Fermat infinities had finally been surmounted, and civilization, amazingly, was still intact.

From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2022

Though “potential” infinities could exist in the minds of mathematicians—like the concept of dividing lines into infinite pieces—nobody could actually do it, so the infinite doesn’t exist in reality.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife