Hello and welcome to The Looking Glass, WBGS' very own Academic Blog. This year we are planning to breathe new life into this amazing blog as the Academic Head Boy team for 2025- 2026! However, at the Looking Glass we need your help to catapult this blog into it's GOLDEN AGE. We need your articles, your essays, your opinions and your finest work to MAKE THE LOOKING GLASS GREAT AGAIN! If you have read something interesting or watched something that sparked a thought on social media - WRITE ABOUT IT! If you entered a competition, however big or small - WRITE ABOUT IT! If you are interested in a specific field, issue or period - WRITE ABOUT IT! If you have produced artwork, a piece of music or creative writing - WE WILL PUBLISH IT! Your creative skills have been called to action - now we must muster to create, discover and explore. You are the creative minds of the future. The Plato's, the Newtons, the Angelo's, the Nietzsche's. This is your calling. This is Y...
KRISHI SEKSARIA and TIM HIRE “To infinity and beyond” - this classic line used by Disney’s ‘Buzz Lightyear’ character is known by children throughout the world, but is it mathematically true? Is there anything beyond infinity? What is infinity? To gain an understanding about such a mind-numbingly humongous concept (infinite in size!), we must first consider the original roots of infinity in the expansive history of mathematics to discover what the concept really represents. Our journey begins in the 5th Century BCE where, in Greece, the philosopher Anaximander coined the Latin term aperion (which has connotations of ‘indefinite’ or ‘undefined’ in modern-day translations) to represent his belief that the indefinite was the source of all things, perhaps stemming from the Ancient Greek’s fascination with the seemingly endless number of stars. However, such an abstract postulation generated conflict amongst the Greeks, as such an idea could not be rationalised within the boundaries of thei...