Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity by David Foster Wallace

Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity

Great Discoveries

David Foster Wallace

336 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history mathematics science challenging informative slow-paced
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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. Ca...

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