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1 de jan. de 2005 · While Wallace's mistakes are numerous, easily spotted, and by now well documented, the beginning of E&M is pretty much right on the money. It's difficult to say, though, exactly where the book ...
Everything and More. : One of the outstanding voices of his generation, David Foster Wallace has won a large and devoted following for the intellectual ambition and bravura style of his fiction and essays. Now he brings his considerable talents to the history of one of math's most enduring puzzles: the seemingly paradoxical nature of infinity.
4 de out. de 2010 · Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity - Kindle edition by Wallace, David Foster, Stephenson, Neal. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity.
David Foster Wallace brings his intellectual ambition and characteristic bravura style to the story of how mathematicians have struggled to understand the infinite, from the ancient Greeks to the nineteenth-century mathematical genius Georg Cantor's counterintuitive discovery that there was more than one kind of infinity. Smart, challenging ...
2 de dez. de 2003 · The common denominator between his fiction and his latest book, Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity, is complexity. Wallace, ever the lover of technical jargon, is a logical choice ...
Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity David Foster Wallace November 2004 / paperback / ISBN 0-393-32629-2 / 336 pages /$14.95 2003 / cloth / ISBN 0-393-00338-8 / 320 pages / $23.95 David Foster Wallace is a high-profile American writer, important some would say. I confess, I’m a Wallace
26 de nov. de 2003 · David Kipen, book critic for The San Francisco Chronicle, reviews the latest work by David Foster Wallace, Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity.
