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Part history, part philosophy, part love letter to the study of mathematics, Everything and More is an illuminating tour of infinity. With his infectious curiosity and trademark verbal pyrotechnics, David Foster Wallace takes us from Aristotle to Newton, Leibniz, Karl Weierstrass, and finally Georg Cantor and his set theory.
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Books. Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity. David Foster Wallace. W. W. Norton & Company, Sep 21, 2010 - Mathematics - 344 pages. "A gripping guide to the modern taming of the infinite." —New York Times Part history, part philosophy, part love letter to the study of mathematics, Everything and More is an illuminating tour of ...
17 de out. de 2003 · The best-selling author of Infinite Jest on the two-thousand-year-old quest to understand infinity. 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 ...
1 de mar. de 2006 · Everything and more: A compact history of infinity. Martin Davis. Published 1 March 2006. History. The Mathematical Intelligencer. David Foster Wallace is a high-profile American writer, maybe even important. I confess, I’m a Wallace fan, though I’m waiting to see if this relative youngster (somewhere around his fifth decade) maintains the ...
4 de out. de 2010 · Part history, part philosophy, part love letter to the study of mathematics, Everything and More is an illuminating tour of infinity. With his infectious curiosity and trademark verbal pyrotechnics, David Foster Wallace takes us from Aristotle to Newton, Leibniz, Karl Weierstrass, and finally Georg Cantor and his set theory.
17 de nov. de 2004 · David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) is the author of Infinite Jest, Girl with Curious Hair, Everything and More, The Broom of the System, and other fiction and nonfiction. Among his honors, he received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Whiting Writers' Award.
- David Foster Wallace
Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity. 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.
