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Naming infinity : a true story of religious mysticism and mathematical creativity /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Graham, Loren R.
Other Authors: Kantor, Jean-Michel
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Mathematics > Russia (Federation) > Religious aspects.
Mysticism > Russia (Federation)
Mathematics > Russia (Federation) > Philosophy.
Mathematics > France > Religious aspects.
Mathematics > France > Philosophy.
Set theory.
Table of 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 and after
  • The human in mathematics, then and now.