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What Can We Gain by Losing Infinity?

By Gregory Barber · Quanta Magazine · April 2026
What Can We Gain by Losing Infinity?
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"Ultrafinitism, a philosophy that rejects the infinite, has long been dismissed as mathematical heresy. But it is also producing new insights in math and beyond."

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