{"id":57003,"date":"2026-06-12T11:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine\/?p=57003"},"modified":"2026-06-12T11:47:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:47:32","slug":"exploring-the-infinite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine\/current\/exploring-the-infinite\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring the Infinite"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/faculty\/edward-scheinerman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ed Scheinerman<\/a>\u2019s 7-year-old granddaughter asked him, \u201cWhat is the number before infinity?\u201d\u2014he knew he was onto something. There isn\u2019t a number before infinity, but that impossibility sparked an idea: Could he take readers on a journey through the many faces of infinity?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scheinerman, a professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">applied mathematics and statistics<\/a> and vice dean for special projects at the Whiting School, is the author of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/yalebooks.yale.edu\/book\/9780300289626\/a-guide-to-infinity\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/yalebooks.yale.edu\/book\/9780300289626\/a-guide-to-infinity\/\">A Guide to Infinity: Ten Mathematical Journeys<\/a><\/em>. The book, which explains concepts of infinity in accessible ways, was published in early 2026 by Yale University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scheinerman hopes readers will walk away both unafraid of infinity and inspired by the creativity inherent in mathematics. \u201cMathematics isn\u2019t just about solving equations,\u201d he explains. \u201cIt\u2019s about inventing ideas, exploring them, and seeing how they connect to the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 SALENA FITZGERALD<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a journey through the many faces of infinity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"issue":[105],"class_list":["post-57003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current","issue-spring-2026"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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