Naming infinity : a true story of religious mysticism and mathematical creativity / Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor.

By:

Graham, Loren R [author.]

Contributor(s):

Kantor, Jean-Michel [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (x, 239 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780674053915
0674053915

Other title:

True story of religious mysticism and mathematical creativity

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Naming infinity.DDC classification:

510.947/0904 22

LOC classification:

QA27.R8 G73 2009eb

Other classification:

BH 3200

Online resources:

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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.

Summary: The intellectual drama will attract readers who are interested in mystical religion and the foundations of mathematics. The personal drama will attract readers who are interested in a human tragedy with characters who met their fates with exceptional courage--Freeman Dyson.

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The intellectual drama will attract readers who are interested in mystical religion and the foundations of mathematics. The personal drama will attract readers who are interested in a human tragedy with characters who met their fates with exceptional courage--Freeman Dyson.