Infinity Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Symbol=== {{Main|Infinity symbol}} The infinity symbol <math>\infty</math> (sometimes called the [[lemniscate]]) is a mathematical symbol representing the concept of infinity. The symbol is encoded in [[Unicode]] at {{unichar|221E|infinity|html=}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+221E|title=Unicode Character "โ" (U+221E)|last=AG|first=Compart|website=Compart.com|language=en|access-date=2019-11-15}}</ref> and in [[LaTeX]] as <code>\infty</code>.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://oeis.org/wiki/List_of_LaTeX_mathematical_symbols|title=List of LaTeX mathematical symbols - OeisWiki|website=oeis.org|access-date=2019-11-15}}</ref> It was introduced in 1655 by [[John Wallis]],<ref>{{citation | last = Scott | first = Joseph Frederick | edition = 2 | isbn = 978-0-8284-0314-6 | page = 24 | publisher = [[American Mathematical Society]] | title = The mathematical work of John Wallis, D.D., F.R.S., (1616โ1703) | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=XX9PKytw8g8C&pg=PA24 | year = 1981 | url-status=live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160509151853/https://books.google.com/books?id=XX9PKytw8g8C&pg=PA24 | archive-date = 2016-05-09 }}</ref><ref>{{citation | last = Martin-Lรถf | first = Per | author-link = Per Martin-Lรถf | contribution = Mathematics of infinity | doi = 10.1007/3-540-52335-9_54 | location = Berlin | mr = 1064143 | pages = 146โ197 | publisher = Springer | series = Lecture Notes in Computer Science | title = COLOG-88 (Tallinn, 1988) | volume = 417 | year = 1990| isbn = 978-3-540-52335-2 }}</ref> and since its introduction, it has also been used outside mathematics in modern mysticism<ref>{{citation|title=Dreams, Illusion, and Other Realities|first=Wendy Doniger|last=O'Flaherty|publisher=University of Chicago Press|year=1986|isbn=978-0-226-61855-5|page=243|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vhNNrX3bmo4C&pg=PA243|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160629143323/https://books.google.com/books?id=vhNNrX3bmo4C&pg=PA243|archive-date=2016-06-29}}</ref> and literary [[symbology]].<ref>{{citation|title=Nabokov: The Mystery of Literary Structures|first=Leona|last=Toker|publisher=Cornell University Press|year=1989|isbn=978-0-8014-2211-9|page=159|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jud1q_NrqpcC&pg=PA159|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160509095701/https://books.google.com/books?id=Jud1q_NrqpcC&pg=PA159|archive-date=2016-05-09}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page