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Everything and more : a compact history of ∞ [infinity] / David Foster Wallace

An exploration of the mathematical history of infinity, tracing the concept from ancient Greece to Georg Cantor's nineteenth-century discovery of multiple infinite sets. The text examines the formalisation and analysis of the infinite within higher mathematics.

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