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Product Identifiers
PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-100393003388
ISBN-139780393003383
eBay Product ID (ePID)2850458
Product Key Features
Number of Pages332 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameEverything and more : a Compact History of Infinity
SubjectInfinity
Publication Year2003
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaMathematics
AuthorDavid Foster Wallace
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight19.7 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2003-011415
Reviews[Wallace] brings to his task a refreshingly conversational style as well as a surprisingly authoritative command of mathematics....A success., Everything and More is, in nearly every way, a gift. It's a thoughtful and witty 300-page testimonial to the qualities I never fully understood that mathematics possessed: Math is astonishing and full of 'shadowlands,' and--ultimately--stunning beauty., Shockingly readable....A brilliant antidote both to boring math textbooks and to pop-culture math books that emphasize the discoverer over the discovery.
Dewey Edition21
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal511.3
SynopsisOne 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., 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.
LC Classification NumberQA9.W335 2003
