I don't believe that the concept of infinity is ever discussed in mathematics.
Sun 02 August 2020I don't believe that the concept of infinity is ever discussed in mathematics. People usually refer to infinity in two different ways, one as a limit, and another as a range. However, we don't deal with "infinity" as a point. It is not a number. We can only ever know that we do not know infinity at all.
Numbers are studied in abstract algebra as a ring of infinite cardinality. One is natural because it is the multiplicative identity of R* (i.e. any number besides 0 multiplied by its multiplicative inverse, a reciprocal, is 1). Likewise, zero is natural because it is the additive identity in R (i.e. any number added with its additive inverse (negative) numbers, is 0).
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