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To Infinity and Beyond: A Cultural History of the Infinite by Eli Maor (Foreword) Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 1991 ISBN-10: 0-691-02511-8 / 0691025118 ISBN-13: 978-0-691-02511-7 / 9780691025117 Eli Maor examines the role of infinity in mathematics and geometry and its cultural impact on the arts and sciences. He evokes the profound intellectual impact the infinite has exercised on the human mind--from the "horror infiniti" of the Greeks to the works of M. C. Escher; from the ornamental |