Book Everything And More
Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity is a book by American novelist and essayist David Foster Wallace that examines the history of infinity, focusing primarily on the work of Georg Cantor, the 19th-century German mathematician who created set theory.
The book is part of the W. W. Norton "Great Discoveries" series.
 First Edition hardcover | |
| Author | David Foster Wallace |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Mathematics |
| Published | October 2003 W. W. Norton & Company |
| Media type | Print (hardback, paperback) |
| Pages | 336 pp |
| ISBN | 0393003388 |
Neal Stephenson provided an "Introduction" to a reissued paperback edition (2010), which Stephenson reprinted in his collection Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing.
Reviewers, including Rudy Rucker, A.W. Moore and Michael Harris, have criticized its style and mathematical content.
References
- Iannis Goerlandt and Luc Herman, "David Foster Wallace." Post-war Literatures in English: A Lexicon of Contemporary Authors 56 (2004), esp. 12–14.
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