Everything And More A Compact History Of Infinity David Foster Wallace by David Foster Wallace 9780393003383, 0393003388 instant download after payment.

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.