Everything and more: a compact history of infinity/ David Foster Wallace.

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Wallace, David Foster

Series: Great discoveriesPublication details: New York: Atlas & Co., c2003.Edition: 1st edDescription: 319 p.: ill.; 22 cmISBN:

0393003388
9780393003383

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Summary: 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 .

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Books	Castorina Estantes Abertas (Open Shelves)	Livros (Books)	510.9 W187e 2003 IMPA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available	História da Matemática		39063000667025

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 .

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