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Everything and More

A Compact History of Infinity

By David Foster Wallace

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| Paperback | 9780753818824

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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.Continue

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 paradoxical nature of infinity.

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. Cantor's counterintuitive discovery of a progression of larger and larger infinities created controversy in his time and may have hastened his mental breakdown, but it also helped lead to the development of set theory, analytic philosophy, and even computer technology.

Smart, challenging, and thoroughly rewarding, Wallace's tour de force brings immediate and high-profile recognition to the bizarre and fascinating world of higher mathematics.

About the series:Great Discoveries brings together renowned writers from diverse backgrounds to tell the stories of crucial scientific breakthroughs—the great discoveries that have gone on to transform our view of the world.

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  • Two + two = phwoar

    Everything and More by David Foster Wallace Weidenfeld & Nicolson £14.99, pp319 There are few pleasures that compare with detecting a mistake in a highly technical book, so humour me. This is my moment. Take up your copy of Everything and More, turn ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • How to Catch a Tortoise

    ‘As you’ve probably begun to see,’ David Foster Wallace writes in Everything and More, ‘Aristotle manages to be sort of grandly and breathtakingly wrong, always and everywhere, when it comes to infinity.’ A much milder version of this antagonism towa ... (read full critics)

    lrb published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 368 Pages
  • Edition: New Ed
  • ISBN-10: 0753818825
  • ISBN-13: 9780753818824
  • Publisher: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
  • Pub date: Jun 02, 2005
  • Dimensions: 1226 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover and Others
  • In other languages: other languages Libri Italiani
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