Infinite Powers

He coaxed a beautiful answer out of nature by asking a beautiful question. Like

discovering mathematics. The results are there, waiting for us. They have been inherent in the figures all along. We are not inventing them

feeling the finiteness of his life against the infinitude of mathematics

Pi is a portal between the round and the straight, a single number yet infinitely complex, a balance of order and chaos. Calculus, for its part, uses the infinite to study the finite, the unlimited to study the limited, and the straight to study the curved. The Infinity Principle is the key to unlocking the mystery of curves, and it arose here first, in the mystery of pi

the secret of the universe is indeed mathematical

particles tunnel out of uranium nuclei at the predicted rate to produce the effect known as radioactivity.

For many practical purposes, the discrete can stand in for the continuous, as long as we slice things thinly enough