“Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity” by David Foster Wallace​

“Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity” by David Foster Wallace • Hardcover • W.W. Norton & Co., 2003 • 332 Pages Condition: Excellent ———————————— The best-selling author of Infinite Jest on the two-thousand-year-old quest to understand infinity. One of the outstanding voices of his generation, David Foster Wallace has won a large and devoted following for the intellectual ambition and bravura style of his fiction and essays. Now he brings his considerable talents to the history of one of math's most enduring puzzles: the seemingly paradoxical nature of infinity. Is infinity a valid mathematical property or a meaningless abstraction? Smart, challenging, and thoroughly rewarding, Wallace's tour de force brings immediate and high-profile recognition to the bizarre and fascinating world of higher mathematics. ——————————————————————— Reviews "A gripping guide to the modern taming of the infinite." ― New York Times Book Review "[Wallace] brings to his task a refreshingly conversational style as well as a surprisingly authoritative command of mathematics....A success." ― John Allen Paulos, The American Scholar "Shockingly readable....A brilliant antidote both to boring math textbooks and to pop-culture math books that emphasize the discoverer over the discovery." ― Booklist