Episode 94 - Dividing By Zero, Infinite Ratios, and Ice Cream Sales

Today Max talks about his long-term fascination with the concept of infinity, including several different forms and definitions that infinity can take on. Then, we do a deep dive into what it means to extend the real number line and divide by zero.

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Relevant Links

Wikipedia Articles:
Point at Infinity
Riemann Sphere (One of my favorite mathematical structures/domains = complex numbers with a point at infinity)
Ordinal Numbers
Division by Zero

Related Episodes

Episode 78 on Bayesian Thinking (as the Prior is a workaround for the 0/0 indeterminate form for count ratios)
Episode 39 on Mathematical Paradoxes