Abstract
Kasmana.This play, written by Cambridge cosmologist John Barrow, has been produced
and performed in Italy (Milan and Valencia). It is made up of five separate vignettes
several of which touch on the deep mathematics of "infinity". In one, we see a theatrical
production of an old standard: Hilbert's Hotel with countably many rooms. In another,
we are brought to Borges' "Library of Babel". The fourth dramatizes the arguments
between Cantor and Kronecker about the nature of infinity. The other two scenarios,
about time travel and the possibilities of living forever, are decidedly less mathematical.
