Paperback. Pub Date :2012-12-11 Pages: 176 Language: English Publisher: Icon Books Infinity is a profoundly counter-intuitive and brain-twisting subject that has inspired some great thinkers - and provoked and shocked others The ancient Greeks were so. horrified by the implications of an endless number that they drowned the man who gave away the secret. And a German mathematician was driven mad by the repercussions of his discovery of transfinite numbers. Brian Clegg and Oliver Pughs brilliant graphic tour of infinity features a cast of characters ranging from Archimedes and Pythagoras to al-Khwarizmi. Fibonacci. Galileo. Newton. Leibniz. Cantor. Venn. Godel and Mandelbrot. and shows how infinity has challenged the finest minds of science and mathematics. Prepare to enter a world of paradox.