Everything and More: A Compact History of [Infinity Symbol] - Brossura

Wallace, David Foster

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ISBN 10: 0753818825 ISBN 13: 9780753818824

Casa editrice: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 2005

Riassunto

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.

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Informazioni sull?autore

David Foster Wallace is the award-winning author of two novels, two collections of stories, and a collection of essays. He died in September 2008.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0753818825
• ISBN 13: 9780753818824
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 368
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile