The course Numbers, Infinity, and Reality aims to engage students with the following questions:
In addition to these specific questions, a more general aim of the course is to illuminate for students the many ways in which mathematics and philosophy have been, are, and should be intertwined.
Toward these ends, readings are selected with an eye toward accessibility for our different student constituencies while also being representative of the rigor and genre of each field. In addition, readings and topics are designed to provide balanced exposure to both disciplines. Readings have been grouped into the following units:
In the next section, we provide three case studies from our assigned readings to illustrate how these themes are addressed in the course.