| 词条 | Everything and More (book) |
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| name = Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity | image = Everything and More cover.jpg | image_size = 200px | caption = First Edition hardcover | author = David Foster Wallace | country = United States | language = English | genre = Mathematics | published = October 2003 W. W. Norton & Company | media_type = Print (hardback, paperback) | pages = 336 pp | isbn = 0393003388 | dewey= | congress= | oclc= }} 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. References1. ^Rudy Rucker, "Infinite Confusion." Science 303.5656 (2004), 313–314. (full pdf-text) 2. ^{{cite news|last=Moore|first=A.W.|title=How to Catch a Tortoise|url=http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n24/aw-moore/how-to-catch-a-tortoise|accessdate=6 December 2013|newspaper=London Review of Books|date=December 18, 2008|pages=27–28}} 3. ^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)
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