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Sto caricando le informazioni... Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity (Great Discoveries (Hardcover)) (originale 2003; edizione 2003)di David Foster Wallace (Autore)
Informazioni sull'operaTutto, e di più : storia compatta dell'infinito di David Foster Wallace (2003)
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David Foster Wallace is a great writer, known for his stories and essays as well as the inspiring novel Infinite Jest. Wallace’s work is revelatory, funny, and post-ironic. I fully expected to enjoy Everything and More. But it’s a train wreck of a book, a disaster. Non-mathematicians will find Everything and More unreadable, and mathematicians will view it with, at best, sardonic amusement. Crippling errors abound... The book closes in a red haze of shame. Wallace doesn’t have time to explain the transfinite ordinals after all. As a parting shot, he gives an incorrect characterization of Kurt Godel’s beliefs regarding the power of the continuum and a misleading characterization of Godel’s demise. Godel in fact believed the size of the continuum to be X 2 {4, 5), and rather than dying “in confinement,” he lived at home until the last two weeks of his life and coherently discussed mathematical philosophy until the end. Appartiene alle Collane EditorialiMenzioni
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? The nineteenth-century mathematical genius Georg Cantor's answer to this question not only surprised him but also shook the very foundations upon which math had been built. Cantor's counterintuitive discovery of a progression of larger and larger infinities created controversy in his time and may have hastened his mental breakdown, but it also helped lead to the development of set theory, analytic philosophy, and even computer technology.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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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