Graham, Loren R.
Naming infinity a true story of religious mysticism and mathematical creativity / [electronic resource] : Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. - x, 239 p. : ill.
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.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
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GBA906413 bnb
Uk
Mathematics--Religious aspects.--Russia (Federation)
Mysticism--Russia (Federation)
Mathematics--Philosophy.--Russia (Federation)
Mathematics--Religious aspects.--France
Mathematics--Philosophy.--France
Set theory.
Electronic books.
QA27.R8 / G73 2009eb
510.947/0904
Naming infinity a true story of religious mysticism and mathematical creativity / [electronic resource] : Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. - x, 239 p. : ill.
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.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
GBA906413 bnb
Uk
Mathematics--Religious aspects.--Russia (Federation)
Mysticism--Russia (Federation)
Mathematics--Philosophy.--Russia (Federation)
Mathematics--Religious aspects.--France
Mathematics--Philosophy.--France
Set theory.
Electronic books.
QA27.R8 / G73 2009eb
510.947/0904