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 .