Dear all, Upon inheriting the Looking Glass from our predecessors, we identified a number of key issues. Firstly, there were simply not enough articles being published, due both to a lack of submissions from the school community and limited responsiveness from the previous Academic Team. Secondly, the Looking Glass had not been advertised or explained effectively enough to the wider school community. As a result, we plan to implement a more consistent and engaging stream of articles on the Looking Glass. As part of this initiative, we are looking to recruit a select group of keen writers from across the lower school who would be willing to produce one high-quality piece of writing, discussion, or media each month for publication on the Looking Glass. We believe this will be hugely beneficial both to the school community, which will gain access to a wider range of opinions and viewpoints, and to prospective writers, who will be able to reference their experience contributing to the Look...
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...