Everything and More
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- For the album by Billy Gilman, see Everything and More (Billy Gilman album)
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Everything and More is an essay by the American novelist and essayist David Foster Wallace. It examines the history of infinity, focusing primarily on the work done by Georg Cantor, a 19th century German mathematician responsible for the creation of set theory. It is part of the W. W. Norton "Great Discoveries" series of books. Readers have had mixed reviews of its style and mathematical content.
[edit] References
- Iannis Goerlandt and Luc Herman, "David Foster Wallace." Post-war Literatures in English: A Lexicon of Contemporary Authors 56 (2004), esp. 12-14.
- Michael Harris, "A Sometimes Funny Book Supposedly about Infinity: A Review of Everything and More." Notices of the AMS 51.6 (2004), 632-638. (full pdf-text)
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