Naming infinity [electronic resource] : a true story of religious mysticism and mathematical creativity / Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor.
Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.Description: x, 239 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 510.947/0904 22
- QA27.R8 G73 2009eb
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E-Book | Strathmore University (Main Library) Online Resource | Link to resource | Not for loan |
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.
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