Beskonačnost

Za druga značenja, pogledajte Beskonačnost (čvor).

Beskonačnost (označava se simbolom ∞) je pojam koji dolazi od latinske riječi infinitas, što znači "bekrajan." Označava nekoliko različitih koncepata koji su se pojavili u filozofiji, matematici i teologiji.

Simbol za beskonačnost, ∞, napisan na više načina.

Također pogledajte

• Bekonačni skup
• Infinitesimal
• Aksiom beskonačnosti
• Hilbertov paradoks Grand Hotela
• Zastava Métisa
• 0.999...
• Konačnost
• Vremenska konačnost

Reference

• Amir D. Aczel (2001). The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity. Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group. ISBN 0-7434-2299-6.
• D. P. Agrawal (2000). Ancient Jaina Mathematics: an Introduction, Infinity Foundation.
• L. C. Jain (1982). Exact Sciences from Jaina Sources.
• L. C. Jain (1973). "Set theory in the Jaina school of mathematics", Indian Journal of History of Science.
• George G. Joseph (2000). The Crest of the Peacock: Non-European Roots of Mathematics (2nd edition izd.). Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-027778-1.
• Eli Maor (1991). To Infinity and Beyond. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-02511-8.
• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson (1998). 'Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor' Arhivirano 16. 9. 2006. na Wayback Machine, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson (2000). 'Jaina mathematics' Arhivirano 20. 12. 2008. na Wayback Machine, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
• Ian Pearce (2002). 'Jainism', MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
• Rudy Rucker (1995). Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-00172-3.
• N. Singh (1988). 'Jaina Theory of Actual Infinity and Transfinite Numbers', Journal of Asiatic Society, Vol. 30.
• David Foster Wallace (2004). Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity. Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc. ISBN 0-393-32629-2.

Vanjski linkovi

• A Crash Course in the Mathematics of Infinite Sets Arhivirano 27. 2. 2010. na Wayback Machine, by Peter Suber. From the St. John's Review, XLIV, 2 (1998) 1-59. The stand-alone appendix to Infinite Reflections, below. A concise introduction to Cantor's mathematics of infinite sets.
• Infinite Reflections Arhivirano 5. 11. 2009. na Wayback Machine, by Peter Suber. How Cantor's mathematics of the infinite solves a handful of ancient philosophical problems of the infinite. From the St. John's Review, XLIV, 2 (1998) 1-59.
• Infinity, Principia Cybernetica
• Hotel Infinity
• The concepts of finiteness and infinity in philosophy
• Source page on medieval and modern writing on Infinity
• The Mystery Of The Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity

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