Everything and More by David Foster Wallace

Everything and More 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.

"Our lives keep getting fuller and faster - but remain finitePerhaps that is what makes the concept of inifinity, the subject of this study, so fascinating." THE TIMES "No one can accuse Foster Wallace of being stuffy; his book is engagingly dishevelled... Foster Wallace shows his love for Maths." TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

David Foster Wallace is the award-winning author of two novels, two collections of stories, and a collection of essays. He lives in Berkeley, California

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ISBN 13	9780753818824
ISBN 10	0753818825
Title	Everything and More
Author	David Foster Wallace
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Orion Publishing Co
Year published	2005-06-02
Number of pages	368
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