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

Graham, Loren R. (Author). Kantor, Jean-Michel. (Added Author).

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780674053915 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0674053915 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 239 p.) : ill.
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:mar.13 CatBulkString:mar.15.13 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-227) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.