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Country
  
United States

Pages
  
336 pp

Author
  
David Foster Wallace

ISBN
  
0393003388

3.7/5
Goodreads

Language
  
English

Originally published
  
October 2003

Genre
  
Mathematics

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Media type
  
Print (hardback, paperback)

Similar
  
David Foster Wallace books, Mathematics books, Mathematical logic books

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.

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.

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Everything and More (book) Wikipedia