philosopher Anaximander introduced the apeiron, the idea of the boundless, or infinity; centuries later, German mathematician Georg Cantor devised a theorem that every integer number must have a ...

This deceptively simple yet revolutionary insight was made by Greek philosopher Anaximander in the 6th century BCE, and is the focus of the latest book by the prolific theoretical physicist Carlo ...

Nietzsche found Anaximander troubling. In Basel in the 1870s, struggling to balance his duties as a lecturer in classics with his philosophical writing, Nietzsche described Anaximander as a ‘true ...