Tutto, e di più. Storia compatta dell'infinito

David Foster Wallace was a great writer of fiction. He was not a great writer of popular math exposition, as this book shows. The main reason I read this book, besides just curiosity about one of the lesser-read Wallace books, was my interest in figuring out a certain infamous scene in Wallace's wond Leggi tutto

I never intended to read this one, given that it's almost universally panned. But I found a hardback copy for sale for a literal dollar, and sometimes a bargain of that magnitude can feel strangely like divine providence... The subject is perhaps DFW's most incongruous since Signifying Rappers , but Leggi tutto

HERE IS WHY THIS BOOK IS AWESOME: This book addresses three related enthusiasms: for mathematics itself, for math history (the lives of the mathematicians & the historical chain of deduction that gave us the math of today) and for DFW's high school math teacher (who sounds totally amazing). A book ab Leggi tutto

Nach Unendlicher Spaß nun Viel Lärm um nichts. David Foster Wallace hat drei Romane geschrieben „Der Besen im System“, „Unendlicher Spaß“ und „Der bleiche König“, der Fragment geblieben ist. Neben den Romanen und auch Kurzgeschichten schrieb er für Zeitungen, hielt Reden, rezensierte. Seine Essays s Leggi tutto

Q: To me Everything and More reads, rather, as a discourse from a green, gridded prairie heaven, where irony-free people who’ve been educated to a turn in those prairie schoolhouses and great-but-unpretentious universities sit around their dinner tables buttering sweet corn, drinking iced tea, and pa Leggi tutto

“Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity” is a book by David Foster Wallace that explores the concept of infinity and its implications for mathematics, philosophy, and human understanding. A dramatic undertaking by a brilliant writer, the book covers the historical development of infinity Leggi tutto