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Lang Matl
Author Graham, Loren R

Title Naming infinity : a true story of religious mysticism and mathematical creativity / Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009

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Location Call No. Status
 CCQ - Lusail Male Library  QA27.R8    Available
 CCQ - Lusail Female Library  QA27.R8    Available
Description x, 239 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-227) 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 an
Subject Mathematics -- Russia (Federation) -- Religious aspects
Mysticism -- Russia (Federation)
Mathematics -- Russia (Federation) -- Philosophy
Mathematics -- France -- Religious aspects
Mathematics -- France -- Philosophy
Set theory
Added Author Kantor, Jean-Michel
ISBN 0674032934