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I’m juggling John McPhee’s The Pine Barrens and Everything and More, David Foster Wallace’s history of the mathematical concept of infinity. Other people have different tastes in books.
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February 11th, 2010 at 11:38 pm
Dangerous, Dirty, and Unfun » Blog Archive » Infinity and beyond says:[...] I may have mentioned earlier that I’m reading Everything and More, David Foster Wallace’s history of infinity. As with everything that DFW writes, it’s awesome. The problem is, the man is a super genius about everything, including math. And I’m a non-math-doing guy. So the book started off pretty good, with a lot of intellectual history and basic mathematics, it very quickly spiraled into a discussion of calculus and linear algebra and all sorts of advanced concepts that I have no idea how to even begin to describe. Which stinks, because I’d really like to finish the book. [...]