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Now he brings his considerable talents to the history of one of math's most enduring puzzles: the seemingly paradoxical nature of infinity. Is infinity a valid mathematical property or a meaningless abstraction?
In Everything and More: A Compact History of ∞, David Foster Wallace relates the fascinating story of how mathematicians through the ages have grappled with the concept of infinity.
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1 de jan. de 2003 · Everything and More : A Compact History of Infinity Hardcover – January 1, 2003 by David Foster Wallace (Author), Illustrated (Illustrator) 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 262 ratings
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In particular, Cantor¿s counterintuitive discovery of a progression of larger and larger infinities was both enormously controversial and mind-bendingly beautiful -- a glimpse of a strange landscape where the everyday rules of arithmetic are broken, and where there truly can be found everything and more.
'A gripping guide to the modern taming of the infinite.' — New York Times , Everything and More, A Compact History of Infinity, David Foster Wallace, Neal Stephenson, 9780393339284
Everything and more : a compact history of infinity Author : David Foster Wallace Summary : A book by American novelist and essayist David Foster Wallace that examines the history of infinity, focusing primarily on the work of Georg Cantor, the 19th-century German mathematician who created set theory
