It amazes children, as they try to count themselves out of numbers, only to discover one day that the hundreds go on forever to infinity. Every mathematician marvel at that drunken number eight lying on the pages of their work. Infinity fascinates; it takes the mind beyond to something always more, while defying common sense. Science writer Brian Clegg's lively history explores infinity in its many intriguing facets, from its ancient origins to its place today at the heart of mathematics and science. The endlessly fascinating book gives an overview of profiles of the people who first conceived and wrestled with defining and refining the inconceivable and indefinable. Thoroughly readable and entirely accessible, the book examines the paradox of infinity, that turns the simplest arithmetic of 1 seeming feasible to equal 0