Naming infinity : a true story of religious mysticism and mathematical creativity / Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor.
By: Graham, Loren R.
Contributor(s): Kantor, Jean-Michel.
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TextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Belknap, 2009Description: x, 239 p. : USD 25.95 ill. ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780674032934 (hbk.) :; 0674032934 (hbk.) :.Subject(s): Mathematics -- Russia (Federation) -- Religious aspects | Mysticism -- Russia (Federation) | Mathematics -- Russia (Federation) -- Philosophy | Mathematics -- France -- Religious aspects | Mathematics -- France -- Philosophy | Set theoryDDC classification: 510.9470904 | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| Book | Chennai Mathematical Institute General Stacks | 510.947 GRA (Browse shelf) | Available | 9692 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.