Everything and More by David Foster Wallace [TRADE PAPERBACK / 2010]

TRADE PAPERBACK [2010] ATLAS BOOKS / W.W. NORTON 

Book is like new and unread.  Subtle tanning to pages. 

David Foster Wallace 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.