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

3.0

It's totally amazing to me that so much about the mathematical concept of infinity was so much in flux as recently as 1900. There are still some conundrums that infinity gives birth to, of course, but that it would take so long for it to be generally accepted that there are such things as irrational numbers is amazing.

The style of this book, with its myriad of footnotes and interpolations, was both interesting and somewhat distracting. I wonder what the story would have been like if I had not read all the IYI's.