Everything and More (book)

{{Short description|2003 book by David Foster Wallace}}

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| name = Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity

| image = Everything and More cover.jpg

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| caption = First Edition hardcover

| author = David Foster Wallace

| country = United States

| language = English

| genre = Mathematics

| published = October 2003 W. W. Norton & Company

| media_type = Print (hardback, paperback)

| pages = 336 pp

| isbn = 0393003388

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Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity is a book by American novelist and essayist David Foster Wallace that examines the history of infinity, focusing primarily on the work of Georg Cantor, the 19th-century German mathematician who created set theory. The book is part of the W. W. Norton "Great Discoveries" series.

Neal Stephenson provided an "Introduction" to a reissued paperback edition (2010), which Stephenson reprinted in his collection Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing.

Reviewers, including Rudy Rucker,Rudy Rucker, "Infinite Confusion." Science 303.5656 (2004), 313–314. ([http://www.rudyrucker.com/oldhomepage/wallace_review.pdf full pdf-text]) A.W. Moore{{cite news|last=Moore|first=A.W.|title=How to Catch a Tortoise|url=http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n24/aw-moore/how-to-catch-a-tortoise|accessdate=6 December 2013|newspaper=London Review of Books|date=December 18, 2008|pages=27–28}} and Michael Harris,Michael Harris, "A Sometimes Funny Book Supposedly about Infinity: A Review of Everything and More." Notices of the AMS 51.6 (2004), 632–638. ([https://www.ams.org/notices/200406/rev-harris.pdf full pdf-text]) have criticized its style and mathematical content.