Everything and More (book)
First Edition hardcover
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| Author | David Foster Wallace |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Mathematics |
| Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
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Publication date
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October 2003 |
| Media type | Print (hardback, paperback) |
| Pages | 336 pp |
| Preceded by | Brief Interviews with Hideous Men |
| Followed by | Oblivion |
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.
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- ↑ Rudy Rucker, "Infinite Confusion." Science 303.5656 (2004), 313–314. (full pdf-text)
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- ↑ 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)
