Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity
First Edition hardcover
AuthorDavid Foster Wallace
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreMathematics
PublishedOctober 2003 W. W. Norton & Company
Media typePrint (hardback, paperback)
Pages336 pp
ISBN0393003388

Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity is a book by American novelist and essayist David Foster Wallace that examines the history of infinity, focusing primarily on the work of Georg Cantor, the 19th-century German mathematician who created set theory. The book is part of the W. W. Norton "Great Discoveries" series.

Neal Stephenson provided an "Introduction" to a reissued paperback edition (2010), which Stephenson reprinted in his collection Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing.

Reviewers, including Rudy Rucker,[1] A.W. Moore[2] and Michael Harris,[3] have criticized its style and mathematical content.

References

  1. ^ Rudy Rucker, "Infinite Confusion." Science 303.5656 (2004), 313–314. (full pdf-text)
  2. ^ Moore, A.W. (December 18, 2008). "How to Catch a Tortoise". London Review of Books. pp. 27–28. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
  3. ^ Michael Harris, "A Sometimes Funny Book Supposedly about Infinity: A Review of Everything and More." Notices of the AMS 51.6 (2004), 632–638. (full pdf-text)


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