Everything and More (book)
Template:Short description Template:Infobox book 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,<ref>Rudy Rucker, "Infinite Confusion." Science 303.5656 (2004), 313–314. (full pdf-text)</ref> A.W. Moore<ref name="A.W. Moore (philosopher)">Template:Cite news</ref> and Michael Harris,<ref>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)</ref> have criticized its style and mathematical content.
ReferencesEdit
- Iannis Goerlandt and Luc Herman, "David Foster Wallace." Post-war Literatures in English: A Lexicon of Contemporary Authors 56 (2004), esp. 12–14.