Wallace, David Foster.

Everything and more: a compact history of infinity/ David Foster Wallace. - 1st ed. - New York: Atlas & Co., c2003. - 319 p.: ill.; 22 cm. - Great discoveries . - Great discoveries. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 314-319).

David Foster Wallace brings his intellectual ambition and 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 is more than one kind of infini .

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Infinite--History.