Naming infinity : a true story of religious mysticism and mathematical creativity / / Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor.
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | x, 239 p. :; ill. |
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Table of 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.