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In Cantor’s mind there were an infinite number of infinities—the transfinite numbers—each nested in the other… At the top of the chain sits the ultimate infinity that engulfs all other infinities: God, the infinity that defies all comprehension.

Cantor’s transfinite numbers were the worst of the lot.

This class comprises integers, real numbers, transfinite numbers and infinitesimals—a structure that no one previously imagined was possible in which everything can be added, multiplied, and so on.

Or: “Discovering sacrifices, for the Vedic gods, was like Western mathematicians discovering irrational or transfinite numbers.”

The perfection of a truly transcendent or transfinite performance, the scene illustrates, involves no luck or accident.