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  Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity (Paperback) By (author) David Foster Wallace, Introduction by Neal Stephenson

  

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  Short Description for Everything and MoreThe 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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  • Publisher: WW Norton & Co
  • Published: 17 December 2010
  • Format: Paperback 344 pages
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  • Categories: Mathematical Foundations | Mathematical Logic | History Of Mathematics | Popular Science
  • ISBN 13: 9780393339284 ISBN 10: 0393339289
  • Sales rank: 57,472

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• Is infinity a valid mathematical property or a meaningless abstraction? David Foster Wallace brings his intellectual ambition and characteristic 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 was more than one kind of infinity. 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.