Naming infinity a true story of religious mysticism and mathematical creativity
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- ISBN: 9780674053915 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0674053915 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780674032934 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0674032934 (alk. paper)
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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. |
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