New DFW--Everything and More

[Richard Romeo]

Hi all--

this sounds rather interesting--from David Foster
Wallace. to be published later this year. there's also
a rumored collection of short stories coming our way
as well.

rich

One of the outstanding voices of his generation, David
Foster Wallace has won a large and devoted following
for the intellectual ambition and bravura style of his
fiction and essays. Now he 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. Smart, challenging, and thoroughly
rewarding, Wallace's tour de force brings immediate
and high-profile recognition to the bizarre and
fascinating world of higher mathematics. 





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