Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity by David Foster Wallace [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 2003

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Everything and More - A Compact History of Infinity by David Foster Wallace 

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [2003] W.W. NORTON & CO.

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.   

Dust jacket is very nice;  small spot of subtle sticker damage to lower spine [see photo]  and one minuscule sealed tear.  Otherwise, excellent.  Looks great in a new HQ brodart jacket protector. 

Book itself is excellent.   Small marks to top of text block and a bit of bumping to edges / corners of boards.  Otherwise, like new and unread. 


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.