How to Catch a Tortoise
A.W. Moore: Infinity, 18 December 2003
Everything and More: A Compact History of ∞
by David Foster Wallace.
Weidenfeld, 319 pp., £14.99, November 2003,0 297 64567 6 Show More
by David Foster Wallace.
Weidenfeld, 319 pp., £14.99, November 2003,
A Brief History of Infinity: The Quest to Think the Unthinkable
by Brian Clegg.
Constable, 255 pp., £8.99, September 2003,1 84119 650 9 Show More
by Brian Clegg.
Constable, 255 pp., £8.99, September 2003,
The Art of the Infinite: Our Lost Language of Numbers
by Robert Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan.
Allen Lane, 324 pp., £20, August 2003,0 7139 9629 3 Show More
by Robert Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan.
Allen Lane, 324 pp., £20, August 2003,
“... comes to infinity.’ A much milder version of this antagonism towards Aristotle appears in both Brian Clegg’s Brief History of Infinity and Robert and Ellen Kaplan’s The Art of the Infinite. Clegg writes that Aristotle ‘made a distinction on the matter of infinity that was to prove useful, but also was a fudge ... ”