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Great Discoveries Ser.: Everything and More : A Compact History of Infinity by David Foster Wallace (2004, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-100393326292
ISBN-139780393326291
eBay Product ID (ePID)30785890
Product Key Features
Number of Pages368 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameEverything and more : a Compact History of Infinity
SubjectInfinity
Publication Year2004
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaMathematics
AuthorDavid Foster Wallace
SeriesGreat Discoveries Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight10.9 Oz
Item Length7.9 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2003-011415
Dewey Edition21
Series Volume Number0
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
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