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Joel David Hamkins is a mathematician and philosopher who investigates the mathematics and philosophy of the infinite. He is the O’Hara Professor of Logic at the University of Notre Dame, having previous affiliations with the University of Oxford and the City University of New York. He is the author of numerous textbooks, including “<a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262054010/the-book-of-infinity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-vars-ga-category="outbound-link" data-vars-ga-action="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262054010/the-book-of-infinity/">The Book of Infinity.</a>”

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