 First Edition hardcover | |
| Author | David Foster Wallace |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Mathematics |
| Published | October 2003 W. W. Norton & Company |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback, paperback) |
| Pages | 336 pp |
| ISBN | 0393003388 |
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, A.W. Moore and Michael Harris, have criticized its style and mathematical content.
References
- Rudy Rucker, "Infinite Confusion." Science 303.5656 (2004), 313–314. (full pdf-text)
- Moore, A.W. (December 18, 2008). "How to Catch a Tortoise". London Review of Books. pp. 27–28. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
- 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)
- Iannis Goerlandt and Luc Herman, "David Foster Wallace." Post-war Literatures in English: A Lexicon of Contemporary Authors 56 (2004), esp. 12–14.
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