Everything & More: A Compact History of Infinity. [1st hardcover].
Language: English
Published by Norton/Atlas. (c2003)., NY/London., 2003
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xii. + 324pp. Line figures & formulas. xii. + 324pp. Includes Source Notes, Bibliography, Index. of the" Great Discoveries Series. First Edition so stated. 1st Printing per print number line. Not a remainder or book club. Near Fine/Fine dj. (Short, non-authorial gift inscription else book & jacket clean/tight/crisp, appears unread, no spine creases).
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- Title
- Everything & More: A Compact History of Infinity. [1st hardcover].
- Author
- Wallace, David Foster.
- Publisher
- Norton/Atlas. (c2003)., NY/London.
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- Near fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine dj
- Binding
- HARDCOVER.
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0393003388
- ISBN 13
- 9780393003383
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Dimensions
- Small octavo.
The best-selling author of Infinite Jest on the two-thousand-year-old quest to understand infinity.
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.
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