David Foster Wallace (1962—2008) is the author of Infinite Jest, Girl with Curious Hair, Everything and More, The Broom of the System, and other fiction and nonfiction. Among his honors, he received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Whiting Writers' Award.
"A gripping guide to the modern taming of the infinite." -- New York Times Book Review "Everything and More is, in nearly every way, a gift. It's a thoughtful and witty 300-page testimonial to the qualities I never fully understood that mathematics possessed: Math is astonishing and full of 'shadowlands,' and-ultimately-stunning beauty." -- Anthony Doerr - Boston Globe "[Wallace] brings to his task a refreshingly conversational style as well as a surprisingly authoritative command of mathematics...A success." -- John Allen Paulos - The American Scholar "Shockingly readable...A brilliant antidote both to boring math textbooks and to pop-culture math books that emphasize the discoverer over the discovery." -- Booklist
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