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Naming infinity : a true story of religious mysticism and mathematical creativity
- Title
- Naming infinity : a true story of religious mysticism and mathematical creativity / Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor.
- Author
- Graham, Loren R.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.
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- Additional Authors
- Kantor, Jean-Michel.
- Description
- x, 239 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- 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.
- Alternative Title
- True story of religious mysticism and mathematical creativity
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-227) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFD 18-4731
- ISBN
- 9780674032934 (alk. paper)
- 0674032934 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008041334
- OCLC
- 255142906
- Author
- Graham, Loren R.
- Title
- Naming infinity : a true story of religious mysticism and mathematical creativity / Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor.
- Imprint
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-227) and index.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Kantor, Jean-Michel.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 18-4731