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Author Graham, Loren R., author.

Title Naming infinity : a true story of religious mysticism and mathematical creativity / Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 239 pages) : illustrations
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
Summary The intellectual drama will attract readers who are interested in mystical religion and the foundations of mathematics. The personal drama will attract readers who are interested in a human tragedy with characters who met their fates with exceptional courage--Freeman Dyson
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-227) and index
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Subject Mathematics -- Russia (Federation) -- Religious aspects
Mysticism -- Russia (Federation)
Mathematics -- Russia (Federation) -- Philosophy
Mathematics -- France -- Religious aspects
Mathematics -- France -- Philosophy
Set theory.
MATHEMATICS -- History & Philosophy.
SCIENCE -- History.
Mathematics -- Religious aspects
Mathematics -- Philosophy
Mysticism
Set theory
Mengenlehre
Rationalität
Mystizismus
France
Russia (Federation)
Frankreich
Russland
Form Electronic book
Author Kantor, Jean-Michel, author.
LC no. 2008041334
ISBN 9780674053915
0674053915
Other Titles True story of religious mysticism and mathematical creativity