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Naming infinity : a true story of religious mysticism and mathematical creativity / Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor.
LIBRA QA27.R8 G73 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Graham, Loren R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mathematics--Russia (Federation)--Religious aspects.
- Mathematics.
- Mysticism--Russia (Federation).
- Mysticism.
- Philosophy.
- Russia (Federation).
- Mathematics--Russia (Federation)--Philosophy.
- Mathematics--France--Religious aspects.
- Mathematics--France--Philosophy.
- Set theory.
- France.
- Physical Description:
- x, 239 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- Storming a monastery
- A crisis in mathematics
- The French trio: Borel, Lebesgue, Baire
- The Russian trio: Egorov, Luzin, Florensky
- Russian mathematics and mysticism
- The legendary Lusitania
- Fates of the Russian trio
- Lusitania and after
- The human in mathematics, then and now.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-227) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674032934
- 0674032934
- OCLC:
- 255142906
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