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Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity is 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.
- David Foster Wallace
- 2003
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.
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- David Foster Wallace
- $15.99
- W. W. Norton & Company
Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity. David Foster Wallace. W. W. Norton & Company, 2004 - Mathematics - 319 pages. 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.
1 de jan. de 2003 · “Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity” is a book by David Foster Wallace that explores the concept of infinity and its implications for mathematics, philosophy, and human understanding.
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17 de out. de 2003 · Is infinity a valid mathematical property or a meaningless abstraction? The nineteenth-century mathematical genius Georg Cantor's answer to this question not only surprised him but also shook the very foundations upon which math had been built.
- October 17, 2003
[Men of Mathematics (1937)] is all the evidence Wallace needs to wash his hands of serious math history, which he dismisses with the curt introductory remark, “There is such a thing as an historian of mathematics.”
Is infinity a valid mathematical property or a meaningless abstraction? 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 ...
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