Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity (Great Discoveries (Hardcover))
Language: English
Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 2003
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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First edition, first printing with full number line. A fine copy in a fine mylar protected DJ. See my photos of this book, more available upon request. This book is in my possession and will be packed in bubble wrap and ship securely packed in a cardboard box. #105.
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- Title
- Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity (Great Discoveries (Hardcover))
- Author
- Wallace, David Foster
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0393003388
- ISBN 13
- 9780393003383
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
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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