Everything and More, David Foster Wallace
Everything and More, David Foster Wallace
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Everything and More
A Compact History of Infinity

Author: David Foster Wallace

Narrator: Robert Petkoff

Unabridged: 12 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/15/2021

Categories: Nonfiction, Mathematics

Synopsis

"A gripping guide to the modern taming of the infinite." —New York Times

Part history, part philosophy, part love letter to the study of mathematics, Everything and More is an illuminating tour of infinity. With his infectious curiosity and trademark verbal pyrotechnics, David Foster Wallace takes us from Aristotle to Newton, Leibniz, Karl Weierstrass, and finally Georg Cantor and his set theory. Through it all, Wallace proves to be an ideal guide—funny, wry, and unfailingly enthusiastic. Featuring an introduction by Neal Stephenson, this edition is a perfect introduction to the beauty of mathematics and the undeniable strangeness of the infinite.
*Includes a downloadable PDF with images from the text

About The Author

David Foster Wallace (1962—2008) is the author of Infinite Jest, Girl with Curious Hair, Everything and More, The Broom of the System, and other fiction and nonfiction. Among his honors, he received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Whiting Writers' Award.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ed on December 31, 2020

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......more

Goodreads review by Mykle on April 13, 2011

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......more

Goodreads review by ☘Misericordia☘ on January 02, 2020

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......more

Quotes

Everything and More is, in nearly every way, a gift. It’s a thoughtful and witty 300-page testimonial to the qualities I never fully understood that mathematics possessed: Math is astonishing and full of ‘shadowlands,’ and—ultimately—stunning beauty. —Anthony Doerr, Boston Globe

[Wallace] brings to his task a refreshingly conversational style as well as a surprisingly authoritative command of mathematics…A success.—John Allen Paulos, American Scholar

Wallace is the perfect parachute buddy for a free fall into the mathematical and metaphysical abyss that is infinity.—Dennis Lim, Village Voice

All the grace of pure mathematics without the parts that make me want to bang my head against the wall.—Daniel Handler, Newsday

Shockingly readable…a brilliant antidote both to boring math textbooks and to pop-culture math books that emphasize the discoverer over the discovery.—Booklist (starred review)

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