“A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One.”
- Georg Cantor

If we wish to understand and describe the universe with a mathematical system that is able to represent the universe as a whole, then we have to make a switch and see the world in an entirely different way. The simplest most straightforward way of summing all numbers is to sum the equal but opposite numbers together like this…
(1 + (-1)) + (2 + (-2)) + (3 + (-3)) +… = 0 + 0 + 0 + … = 0
So for a moment we will imagine that the correct sum of all numbers does sum up to and equal zero. Except this means that we need to change the value of zero away from being no things. We need to treat zero as the largest value in the mathematical system which actually includes the two infinities of positive and negative numbers. Suddenly zero has become an infinite whole that contains all other numbers. Every positive and every negative number on the real number plane is summing or combining together to form an ultimate number of absolute value. Obviously this is not math as we know it. This is a math without time, without process, a math of real infinite values.

In Sanskrit, poornam means both full and zero. Poornam literally means full or complete and mathematically means infinity.

“Poornamadah Poornamidam Poornatpoornamudachyate.
Poornasya Poornamadaya Poornamevavashisyate.”
Yajurveda, Shanti Mantra , Chapter 40

meaning,

“That is Poorna, this is Poorna, Poorna comes out of Poorna. If Poorna is subtracted from Poorna, still Poorna is left.” Yajurveda, Peace Mantra, Chapter 40

This line then yields that the result of subtracting infinity from
infinity is still infinity. In Indian mysticism, the concept of infinity and zero are very closely linked.

In the Isha Upanishad, there’s a line:
“Poornasya poornam aadaya poornameva visish-yate”.

To mathematically explain this, we have to assume that the first poornam represents infinity and the second, zero. Indian mathematicians knew perfectly well how to distinguish between these two notions which are mutually contradictory and which are the inverse of each other. They knew that division by zero gave them infinity.

Not only the Vedas or Modern mathematics but taoism also suggests something similar if you can make sense of it:

Taoism Says,
道可道，非常道
名可名，非常名

The way(theory/principle/God) which can be uttered, is not the eternal Way (theory/principle/God).”

P.S. Why this post? The above theories have greatly influenced the way I see things in my life so I had to post this.
Compiled from: Everything Forever , Wikipedia

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