Everything and More: A Compact History of 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 infinitie…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-00338-3
- EAN: 9780393003383
- Produktnummer: 9462774
- Verlag: W W Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Masse: H21.4 cm x B13.5 cm x D2.8 cm 476 g
- Auflage: And
- Gewicht: 476
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David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) is the author of Infinite Jest, Girl with Curious Hair, Everything and More, The Broom of the System, and other fiction and nonfiction. Among his honors, he received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Whiting Writers' Award.
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