Naming infinity
Subtitle: a true story of religious mysticism and mathematical creativity
By: Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor.
Contributors: Kantor, Jean-Michel.
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780674032934
Subjects: Mathematics -- Russia (Federation) -- Religious aspects; Mysticism -- Russia (Federation); Mathematics -- Russia (Federation) -- Philosophy; Mathematics -- France -- Religious aspects; Mathematics -- France -- Philosophy; Set theory
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Storming a monastery; title: A crisis in mathematics; title: The French trio: Borel, Lebesgue, Baire; title: The Russian trio: Egorov, Luzin, Florensky; title: Russian mathematics and mysticism; title: The legendary Lusitania; title: Fates of the Russian trio; title: Lusitania and after; title: The human in mathematics, then and now.