Everything and more: a compact history of infinity/ David Foster Wallace.
Series: Great discoveriesPublication details: New York: Atlas & Co., c2003.Edition: 1st edDescription: 319 p.: ill.; 22 cmISBN:- 0393003388
- 9780393003383
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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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