Everything and more: a compact history of infinity/
Wallace, David Foster.
Everything and more: a compact history of infinity/ David Foster Wallace. - 1st ed. - New York: Atlas & Co., c2003. - 319 p.: ill.; 22 cm. - Great discoveries . - Great discoveries. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 314-319).
David Foster Wallace brings his intellectual ambition and bravura style to the story of how mathematicians have struggled to understand the infinite, from the ancient Greeks to the nineteenth-century mathematical genius Georg Cantor""s counterintuitive discovery that there is more than one kind of infini .
0393003388 9780393003383
2003011415
Infinite--History.
Everything and more: a compact history of infinity/ David Foster Wallace. - 1st ed. - New York: Atlas & Co., c2003. - 319 p.: ill.; 22 cm. - Great discoveries . - Great discoveries. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 314-319).
David Foster Wallace brings his intellectual ambition and bravura style to the story of how mathematicians have struggled to understand the infinite, from the ancient Greeks to the nineteenth-century mathematical genius Georg Cantor""s counterintuitive discovery that there is more than one kind of infini .
0393003388 9780393003383
2003011415
Infinite--History.