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One, Two, Three…Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science

George Gamow
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Gamow was a physicist first of all: mathematics is the language of physics and you can see that through this book. It was where I read for the first time that there could be different sorts of infinity and that was just mind-blowing, I thought infinity was something you just couldn’t understand.