Thunderstorm Clap Lightning Wail Sirens off in the distance One chance Outrun Zeus' bolt Often Infinity reminds us Through perspective At the worst moments Of the finiteness Of everything Going nowhere Hey but this is serious. #photography#poetry

Tetsushi Ito, Akihiro Kanemitsu, Teppei Takamatsu, Yuuji Tanaka Arithmetic finiteness of Mukai varieties of genus 7 https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.20046

A. Bravo, Mar\'ia de la Paz Tirado Hern\'andez Finiteness of Leaps in the sense of Hasse-Schmidt of reduced rings https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.19093

Digital painting: Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema! #contemporaryArt#mentalCinema#noAFD#insideSpace#innerLife#introspection#selfportrait#oldwhiteman#identity#gorilla#littleBoy#antAndElephant#gameOfCards#dancingdeath#mementomori#vanitas#fragilitas#finiteness#mortality

But I guess when your understanding of life is mostly about owning possessions and capital growth, the idea of finiteness is scary? To me, truly understanding that we all are going to die no matter what is among the most inspiring realizations I ever made - and I'm not tired of life, au contraire:

Soham Ghosh A finiteness result towards the Casas-Alvero Conjecture https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18717

Why would you want one? We as a species so fear our finiteness that we spend so much of life trying to extend it rather than living.

Ignatios Antoniadis, Anthony Guillen, Osmin Lacombe Flux vacua in type IIB compactifications on orbifolds: their finiteness and minimal string coupling https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18995

Linus Hamann, David Hansen, Peter Scholze Geometric Eisenstein series I: finiteness theorems https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07363

Daniel Sell, Franziska Sieron Almost automorphic subshifts with finiteness conditions for the boundary of the separating cover https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06005