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EVERYTHING AND MORE: A COMPACT HISTORY OF By David Foster Wallace. W. W. Norton and James Atlas Books. $23.95.

In his oxymoronically titled Everything and More, David Foster Wallace sketches the history of humanity's attempts to understand the notion of infinity. His book begins with the Greeks, Zeno in particular, and ends with modern logicians, Georg Cantor in particular. In between are the mathematicians who used calculus, invented in the seventeenth century by Newton and Leibniz, to try to get a handle on the discombobulating notions of the infinitely big and the ...

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