Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity by David Foster Wallace (Engl
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Everything and More by David Foster Wallace Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description The best-selling author of Infinite Jest on the two-thousand-year-old quest to understand infinity. Publisher Description 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 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 , challenging, and thoroughly rewarding, Wallace s tour de force brings immediate and high-profile recognition to the bizarre and fascinating world of higher mathematics. Details ISBN 0393003388 ISBN-13 9780393003383 Title Everything and More Author David Foster Wallace Format Hardcover Year 2003 Pages 332 Edition 1st Publisher WW Norton Co GE_Item_ID:7242250; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping ne
- Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
- Year: 2003
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN: 9780393003383
- Condition: Fine
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