The pirates are bored, so they count the number of people in line using ordinal numbers. The pirates are bored, so they count the number of people in line using ordinal numbers. Meanwhile, Peg, Cat, ...

The following is an excerpt from Beyond Infinity: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics, by Eugenia Cheng Mathematics can be thought of as many things: a language, a tool, a game. It might ...