Everything and More

Everything and More

"Everything and More" is an essay by the American novelist and essayist David Foster Wallace. It examines the history of infinity, focusing primarily on the work done by Georg Cantor, a 19th century German mathematician responsible for the creation of set theory. It is part of the W. W. Norton "Great Discoveries" series of books. Readers including Rudy RuckerFact|date=October 2008 and Michael Harris [Michael Harris, "A Sometimes Funny Book Supposedly about Infinity: A Review of "Everything and More"." "Notices of the AMS" 51.6 (2004), 632-638. ( [http://www.ams.org/notices/200406/rev-harris.pdf full pdf-text] )] have had mixed reviews of its style and mathematical content.

References

* Iannis Goerlandt and Luc Herman, "David Foster Wallace." "Post-war Literatures in English: A Lexicon of Contemporary Authors" 56 (2004), esp. 12-14.


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