Everything and More

On my way up here, my friend John Matson gave me this book, Everything and More: A Complete History of Infinite, by David Foster Wallace. Despite the presumptuous title (it seems ironic that there could be a "complete" history of something that is endless!), Wallace certainly provides a thorough examination of the mathematics of infinity through the ages. While I can recommend this book to anyone whose calculus is still fairly accessible to memory, Wallace's attempts to provide explanations to lay-people are still frustratingly difficult to grasp. I am eagerly awaiting Georg Cantor's proofs of the existence successively bigger infinities.