Naming infinity [electronic resource] : a true story of religious mysticism and mathematical creativity / Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor.
2009
QA27.R8 G73 2009eb
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Naming infinity [electronic resource] : a true story of religious mysticism and mathematical creativity / Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor.
Author
Graham, Loren R.
ISBN
9780674032934 (alk. paper)
0674032934 (alk. paper)
0674032934 (alk. paper)
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Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.
Language
English
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x, 239 p. : ill.
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QA27.R8 G73 2009eb
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510.947/0904
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-227) and index.
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Kantor, Jean-Michel.
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Table of 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.
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.