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Hold Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand and Eternity in an Hour
- Title:
- Hold Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand and Eternity in an Hour
- Presenter:
- Robert Ely
- Affiliations:
- Mathematics
- Date:
- 2009-09-29
- Academic Year:
- 2009/10
- Description:
- How do we come to understand the infinite? After pondering some paradoxes together, we'll briefly trace the development of human thinking about infinity from Zeno's day to Cantor's. We'll examine how this development illuminates the cognitive moves that learners must make in order to negotiate the pitfalls of the infinite, including the metaphors of object-creation and their accompanying ontological anxiety.
- Original Link:
- http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2009/ely
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- Citation:
- "Hold Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand and Eternity in an Hour", Renfrew Colloquium Archive, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/mric/items/mric2009-10-004.html