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Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity Hardcover - 2003

by David Foster Wallace

The bestselling author of "Infinite Jest" takes on the 2,000 year-old quest to understand infinity. Wallace brings his considerable talents to the history of one of math's most enduring puzzles: the seemingly paradoxical nature of infinity.


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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.

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1a. There is such a thing as an historian of mathematics.

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  • Title Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity
  • Author David Foster Wallace
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 332
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
  • Date 2003-10-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780393003383 / 0393003388
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.6 x 5.9 x 1.1 in (21.84 x 14.99 x 2.79 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Infinite - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003011415
  • Dewey Decimal Code 511.3

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  • Booklist, 10/15/2003, Page 366
  • Choice, 07/01/2004, Page 2081
  • Entertainment Weekly, 10/10/2003, Page 127
  • Library Journal, 06/15/2003, Page 0
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 06/15/2003, Page 54
  • New York Review of Books, 05/12/2011, Page 8
  • New York Times, 11/16/2003, Page 54
  • New Yorker (The), 11/03/2003, Page 84
  • Publishers Weekly, 10/13/2003, Page 71
  • Vanity Fair, 10/01/2003, Page 106
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