Naming infinity [electronic resource] : a true story of religious mysticism and mathematical creativity / Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor.

By: Graham, Loren RContributor(s): Kantor, Jean-Michel | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009Description: x, 239 p. : illSubject(s): Mathematics -- Russia (Federation) -- Religious aspects | Mysticism -- Russia (Federation) | Mathematics -- Russia (Federation) -- Philosophy | Mathematics -- France -- Religious aspects | Mathematics -- France -- Philosophy | Set theoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 510.947/0904 LOC classification: QA27.R8 | G73 2009Online resources: Click to View
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.
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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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