In our Time: Infinity worksheet.

This programme is only available on BBC Sounds. The YouTube channel has been deleted. Infinity - challenge & extend your pupils, a fascinating literacy activity. Discussed by Melvyn Bragg, Professor Ian Stewart, Robert Kaplan, and Sarah Rees

21 questions for the 42-min. programme covering: ancient paradoxical views; the hyperbolic plane; calculus; infinity as a process; the parallel postulate; creativity in maths; different sets of infinite numbers; black holes; Hilbert, Wallace, Cantor; infinity and zero, Sumerians; imaginary numbers. reality and the infinite. Do it at home or in class. VERY EASY TO MARK! A very human, moving documentary. .pdf & .doc of questions, .txt answer sheet (doesn’t show up on TES preview properly.