http://dangerousdirtyunfun.com/2009/12/so-you-dont-think-i-only-write-about-music/ "Although the odds against it are staggering, it MIGHT turn out to be sublime." Sun, 20 May 2012 04:36:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://dangerousdirtyunfun.com/2009/12/so-you-dont-think-i-only-write-about-music/comment-page-1/#comment-1878 Dangerous, Dirty, and Unfun » Blog Archive » Infinity and beyond Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:38:58 +0000 http://dangerousdirtyunfun.com/?p=623#comment-1878 [...] 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. [...] [...] 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. [...]

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