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
Copies
Location
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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
