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Everything and More David Foster Wallace

Everything and More By David Foster Wallace

Everything and More by David Foster Wallace


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The best-selling author of Infinite Jest on the two-thousand-year-old quest to understand infinity.

Everything and More Summary

Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity by David Foster Wallace

One of the outstanding voices of his generation, David Foster Wallace has won a large and devoted following for the intellectual ambition and bravura style of his fiction and essays. Now he brings his considerable talents to the history of one of math's most enduring puzzles: the seemingly paradoxical nature of infinity.

Is infinity a valid mathematical property or a meaningless abstraction? The nineteenth-century mathematical genius Georg Cantor's answer to this question not only surprised him but also shook the very foundations upon which math had been built. Cantor's counterintuitive discovery of a progression of larger and larger infinities created controversy in his time and may have hastened his mental breakdown, but it also helped lead to the development of set theory, analytic philosophy, and even computer technology.

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.

About David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) is the author of Infinite Jest, Girl with Curious Hair, Everything and More, The Broom of the System, and other fiction and nonfiction. Among his honors, he received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Whiting Writers' Award.

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CIN0393326292G
9780393326291
0393326292
Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity by David Foster Wallace
Used - Good
Paperback
WW Norton & Co
20041203
368
N/A
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