Speaker: 

Professor Matt Foreman

Institution: 

UC Irvine

Time: 

Wednesday, April 8, 2009 - 5:00pm

Location: 

RH 594

Is infinity plus one equal to one plus infinity? What is infinity times
zero? Is infinity even a number? What are numbers anyway? Are there
different sizes of infinity? How does infinity come up in ordinary
mathematics? Do we need infinity to add real numbers?

I will survey these puzzles and give some rigorous answers.