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Everything and More

By David Foster Wallace

Book information

Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Year
2020
ISBN
0393003388, 2003011415, 9780393339284, 9780393241990
Language
english
Format
AZW3
Filesize
5 MB (5366927 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2025-04-12 12:43:55

Description

"A gripping guide to the modern taming of the infinite."—The New York Times. With a new introduction by Neal Stephenson.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.

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