Though John Banville likes to say that he writes in “a literary patois” he calls “Hiberno-English,” the Irish novelist and critic is, without question, one of the great living masters of ...

Infinity used to be the place where mathematics ran out of road, a hazy horizon rather than a mapped landscape. Now a pair of new, exotic infinities is forcing researchers to redraw that map and ...

For centuries, the concept of infinity has captivated mathematicians and philosophers alike, stretching far beyond the simple idea of endless counting. Recent groundbreaking discoveries, however, have ...