Everything and More: Cantor & Zeno & mathematics & abstraction & ∞ (Great Discoveries series) by David Foster Wallace, W. W. Norton, $23.95, ISBN 0393003388 Reviewed by Michael Brooks
THERE aren’t many books about mathematics that will have you laughing out loud, but this is one of them. It’s a great read. And when a novelist takes on a difficult subject, you might expect something a bit watery, or perhaps a purely historical approach. But Everything and More, a novelist’s (and novel) look at infinity, has the maths and the history, as well as dry and very funny asides and – most impressive of all – the flair and style to…
