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

Graham, Loren R.

Naming infinity a true story of religious mysticism and mathematical creativity / [electronic resource] : Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. - x, 239 p. : ill.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.





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Mathematics--Religious aspects.--Russia (Federation)
Mysticism--Russia (Federation)
Mathematics--Philosophy.--Russia (Federation)
Mathematics--Religious aspects.--France
Mathematics--Philosophy.--France
Set theory.


Electronic books.

QA27.R8 / G73 2009

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