Infinity

A Puzzling Idea

Infinite numbers
Stretching in all directions
Puzzling idea
Sydney Sidess

a thing with no end
not even the distant one
you’re picturing now
Ben Orlin
Math with Bad Drawings
The Mathematician’s Haiku Book

No? Then add one to
the product of all the primes.
Prime factor? No way!
Jay Yellen

No? What about one
plus the product of all primes?
Prime factor? No way!
Jay Yellen

No? What about one
plus the product of all primes?
It can’t be factored!
Jay Yellen

No? Then consider
one plus product of all primes.
It can’t be factored!
Jay Yellen

No? Then adding one
to the product of all primes
gets you a new one!
Jay Yellen

No? Consider one
plus the product of all primes.
It can’t be factored!
Jay Yellen

No? But adding one
to the product of all primes
gets you a new one!
Jay Yellen

No? But the number
One plus product of all primes
Is also a prime.
Jay Yellen

Buzz Lightyear is a
Great publicity agent
For infinity
Teena Carroll
Emory and Henry College

Arrow frozen but
Flying towards the target
quantum paradox
Jeremy Redlien

Even Achilles
could not conquer all the points
tortoise merely passed
Jeremy Redlien

How many angels
Can fit on a pin if they
Must social distance?
Sara Cushing

I don’t find mankind
Infinite in faculty,
Nor approaching it.
Clarke Weigle

Halfway there each step
You’ll get to the goal someday
But you will die first
Eric Newman
from Math in Seventeen Syllables

No vacancy at
Hilbert’s hotel—There are rooms
Left for all of us!
Lora Newman
from Math in Seventeen Syllables