Naming infinity :

Graham, Loren R.

Naming infinity : a true story of religious mysticism and mathematical creativity / True story of religious mysticism and mathematical creativity Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. - 1 online resource (x, 239 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-227) and index.

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 and after -- The human in mathematics, then and now.

The intellectual drama will attract readers who are interested in mystical religion and the foundations of mathematics. The personal drama will attract readers who are interested in a human tragedy with characters who met their fates with exceptional courage--Freeman Dyson.

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Mathematics--Religious aspects.--Russia (Federation)
Mysticism--Russia (Federation)
Mathematics--Philosophy.--Russia (Federation)
Mathematics--Religious aspects.--France
Mathematics--Philosophy.--France
Set theory.
MATHEMATICS--History & Philosophy.
Mathematics--Philosophy.
Mysticism.
Set theory.
Mengenlehre
Rationalität
Mystizismus
SCIENCE / History


France.
Russia (Federation)
Frankreich
Russland.


Electronic book.
Electronic books.

QA27.R8 / G73 2009eb

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