Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity (Great Discoveries)

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• Have you thought about infinity recently? If so, it was possibly bound up in religious ideas, in some of which it is integral ("Where will YOU spend eternity?" says one local billboard). Religious infinities have lapped over into mathematical ideas in...
   
• I think the first thing to be said of this book (or booklet, as Wallace recurrently refers to it) is that it's rather a lark to read. This will surprise no reader familiar with Wallace's literary and critical works. But, unlike his previous works, this...
   
• I greatly enjoyed this book, but it's not for everyone. To appreciate it, there are two requirements: (1) You must enjoy, or at least tolerate, Wallace's quirky writing style, with its mixture of the conversationsal and the erudite, its frequent...
   
• Sorry if this book is an affront to some "Harvard" scholars and "PhD physicists" (or those that pretend to be the above) but for people in the real word, alas I am a lowly engineer, this book is a lot of FUN TO READ. It could even encourage some readers...
   
• This book is a fun discussion for smart people who (more or less) already know the story or like to think they do. It is not the best way to get started on the topic. I enjoyed the philosophical part where he argues that Cantor topedoes Thomas Aquinas,...

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