Naming infinity: a true story of religious mysticism and mathematical creativity
Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor
Naming infinity: a true story of religious mysticism and mathematical creativity
Author
Loren Graham and Jean-Michel KantorEdition 1
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شناسنامه
Title and Author
Naming infinity: a true story of religious mysticism and mathematical creativity / Loren Graham and Jean-Michel KantorPublication Details
کمبریج : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press، 2009مPhysical Description
x, 239 p.: ill.; 22 cm.Subject
Mathematics - Russia (Federation) Religious aspectsMysticism - Russia (Federation)
Mathematics - Russia (Federation) Philosophy
Mathematics - France Religious aspects
Mathematics - France Philosophy
Set theory
Language
انگلیسیIncludes bibliographical references )p. 212-722( 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