Her interest in figurative painting was fleeting; by the time she returned to Beirut three years later, she had devoted herself to expressing the Islamic principle of infinitude through the abstract forms of line and curve.Her Paris paintings fill the first gallery, and reveal an intuitive command of shape and movement.
The infinitude of the Absolute can in turn be used as evidence for the existence of infinite thoughts or of infinite mathematical forms.
These simultaneously produced a new sense both of human insignificance (particularly abetted by the Copernican displacement of the Earth from the centre of the universe) and of the unsuspected complexity and infinitude of the natural world.
In the first of these, which was intended as a Counter-Reformation tract against the reformed theology of John Calvin, Charron claimed that the nature and existence of God are unknowable because of God's infinitude and man's weakness.
The Bohemian mathematician Bernard Bolzano (1781 1848) formulated an argument for the infinitude of the class of all possible thoughts.
This demands an infinite supply of primes, to avoid repeating primes used in other transactions, so that the infinitude of primes has become one of the foundations of electronic commerce.
So long as human society continues to exist, the novel will exist as its mirror, an infinitude of artistic images reflecting an infinitude of life patterns.
It is through infinitude that God's essential attributes wisdom, for instance differ from the corresponding and otherwise similar attributes found in created beings.
It was an epoch of appalling national devastation: a million Mozambicans killed, five million driven from their homes, tens of thousands tortured or maimed, the national infrastructure effectively dismantled, the ground sewn with a seeming infinitude of land mines.
That haziness corresponds exactly with my memory of the place, which is geometrically contained and yet has a labyrinthine infinitude.
It may also have been the source of what would later be his governing image of the universe: fullness, infinitude.
