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Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity

Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity

A book by David Foster Wallace about the history of infinity, focusing on Georg Cantor

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    “This is a popular math book that is actually mostly about math. More than Cantor, his life and times, it’s about the things Cantor said and discovered. It’s intelligible to non-mathematicians, and full of lucid, beautiful and true writing about a really beautiful and true subject.”

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