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"A gripping guide to the modern taming of the infinite."—The New York Times. With a new introduction by Neal Stephenson.
Is infinity a valid mathematical property or a meaningless abstraction? David Foster Wallace brings his intellectual ambition and characteristic bravura style to the story of how mathematicians have struggled to understand the infinite, from the ancient Greeks to the nineteenth-century mathematical genius Georg Cantor's counterintuitive discovery that there was more than one kind of infinity. 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.
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maths, math, mathematics, infinity, abstraction, Infinite, History, InfiniPeople
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Todo y más: Una breve historia del infinito
May 16, 2013, RBA Libros
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Everything and more: a compact history of infinity
2010, Atlas Book
in English
0393339289 9780393339284
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Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity
2010, W. W. Norton
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Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity
2010, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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Everything and More
June 2, 2005, Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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0753818825 9780753818824
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Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity (Great Discoveries)
November 30, 2004, W. W. Norton & Company, Norton
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Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity (Great Discoveries)
November 30, 2004, W. W. Norton & Company
in English
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Everything and More
November 13, 2003, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Hardcover
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Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity (Great Discoveries)
October 2003, W. W. Norton & Company
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0393003388 9780393003383
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