Cheng, Eugenia

Dr. Eugenia Cheng
Scientist-in-residence
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

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Books: How to Bake π, Beyond Infinity, The Art of Logic
Homepage: Sheffield, SAIC
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Publications: PhD
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YouTube: Infinity

Online Contact Form: June 8, 2021 @ 12:22 AM

http://eugeniacheng.com/contact/

Dear Prof. Dr. Eugenia Cheng:

Congratulations on all that you do.  Simply amazing.

You are probably aware of Buzz Lightyear and his signature calling, “To infinity and beyond.”  An old friend had to introduce me to Buzz just a few months ago.  He is a significant character in Disney-Pixar’s Toy Story.  Yet, getting beyond infinity is a challenge so I am anxious to read your book, just now discovered,  “Beyond Infinity.“

I do not know what to do with David Hilbert’s conclusions, especially when he says,  “We have already seen that the infinite is nowhere to be found in reality, no matter what experiences, observations, and knowledge are appealed to.” https://81018.com/hilbert

 It seems pi with its never-ending, never-repeating numbers has an element of the infinite within that number generation and it “kind of, sort of” participates in the finite.  That is a very active question for me.

Our project began in a high school geometry class in 2011 when we started going inside the tetrahedron (and the octahedron with it): https://81018.com/tot/ and ended up going down to the Planck scale in just about 112 steps (base-2) and then to out to the Age and Size of the Universe in about 90 additional steps.  That was a fun discovery.

We had ourselves a very special STEM tool, but it seems to be a bit more.
The story: https://81018.com/home/
The chart of numbers:  https://81018.com/chart/

Is it possible that the chart necessarily includes all things, everywhere, for all time? Doesn’t it beg the question, “What is the relation between the finite and infinite?”

Thank you.

Warmly,

Bruce

Working area:

Power in Numbers: The Rebel Women of Mathematics by Talithia Williams, Harvey Mudd College

Can we bake a very special pi …with infinitesimal spheres? https://81018.com/challenge/

Consider Pixar-Disney Buzz Lightyear. Can we go beyond infinity?