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Jim Holt
Jim Holt writes about math, science, and philosophy for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Review of Books. His Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story was an international bestseller. His most recent book is When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought.


On David Foster Wallace, Georg Cantor, and Infinity

The Difficulty of Writing About Abstract Mathematical Ideas
May 16, 2018  By Jim Holt
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