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"Entertaining Mr. Chicken": Review of Everything and More, by David Foster Wallace. Reviewed by Michael Brooks. New Scientist, 5 November 2003, pages 52-53.
This brief and positive review calls the book "a great read." Because David Foster Wallace is a novelist, one might expect a watered-down or purely historical presentation. But, the review says, "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 put all of it together."
Another review, more negative, of this same book: "When good novelists do bad science," a review by Amir Aczel of David Foster Wallace's Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity, The Globe and Mail, 3 January 2004.
Yet another review: "Electrified Paté," John Allen Paulos, The American Scholar, Winter 2004, page 147.
The following review is summarized in the Math Digest, 200311-infinity.html: "From here to infinity: Germs, math, and the beauty of discovery": A review of Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity, by David Foster Wallace. Reviewed by Anthony Doerr. Boston Sunday Globe, 19 October 2003.
A review about two books on infinity---Wallace's and one by Brian Clegg---has also appeared: "Keep on Tracking," by Frank Kermode. The Guardian, 18 October 2003. It was summarized in the Math Digest, 200311-infinity1.html.
--- Allyn Jackson
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