The glorious mathematics of infinity

Illustration by Angelo Bautista. Original images by Yusuf Onuk, Aedrian Salazar and Compare Fibre (CC0)

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Infinity comes in different sizes. The idea of a world with more than one kind of infinity is glorious and also incomprehensible. Can you add, subtract and divide with infinity? Anne Strainchamps talks with mathematician Jordan Ellenberg about the confounding concept of infinity.