The book contains popular expositions (accessible to readers with no more than a high school mathematics background) on the mathematical theory of infinity, and

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'Science has never had an advocate quite like David Deutsch ... A computational physicist on a par with his touchstones Alan Turing and Richard Feynman, and a p