nPostednon August 8, 2016
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nHavenyou ever seen the symbol for infinity?
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nCan you see why Infinity Day is the eighth day of the eighth month?
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nThisnholiday was first thought up by philosopher and writer Jean-PierrenAdy Fenyo, in 1987. He promoted his holiday a bit in New York, wherenhe was living at the time, and later in a few other cities in thenU.S. and Europe. It’s supposed to be a day to promote philosophy fornall.
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nInfinity is a concept of being without limit. The example often given is the counting numbers…No matter how large your number is, you can always make it larger by merely adding 1 to it.
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- Learnnabout infinity…at Math Is Fun and at Plus Maths.
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- Listennto this Infinity Song or check out this 3-minute videonon infinity.
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n(By the way, I have a bit of a problem with the end of the 3-minute video I linked to, above. I think that the speaker wanted to end on a positive, feel-good note, but he said something like, at any given moment, we have access to infinite choices. I simply do not think that is at all true. I wonder what other mathematicians, as well as scientists and philosophers, would say about people having infinite choices…?)
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- Inalways feel like I am approaching infinity when I watch a MandelbrotnSet zoom. This one and this one are good examples –nand this one in 3-D – but there are many more!
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- Other examples of times we use the word “infinite” include the Mobius strip…
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n…”infinity pools”…
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n…and the theoretical possibility of infinite universes.
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nAlsonon this date:
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Independence Day for Bhutan
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nEarth Overshoot Day
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nAnniversarynof the laying of the cornerstone of Uraniborg
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nSneaknSome Zucchini onto Your Neighbor’s Porch Night
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nPeasants’nDay in Tanzania
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nPhysicistnErnest Lawrence’s birthday
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Plannahead:
Plannahead:
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Checknout my Pinterest boards for:
Checknout my Pinterest boards for:
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