★著者简介 【美】大卫•福斯特·华莱士 （David Foster Wallace，1962—2008），我们这个时代著名的美国作家之一，与《自由》作者乔纳森·弗兰岑并称为“美国文坛双壁”。 大学的毕业论文是他的第一部小说《系统的笤帚》，名作《无尽的玩笑》被著名编辑迈克尔·皮奇惊叹 为“我想出版这本书胜过想呼吸”，并被《时代》周刊评选为1923年以来世界百部最佳英语小说之一。其未完成作品《苍白的国王》入围普利策奖最终名单。本人曾获得麦克阿瑟天才奖。 即使在天才遍地的欧美文坛，华莱士也是个极为特殊的存在。他对哲学的痴迷，对繁复长句子的无尽追求，让他的作品从一诞生就划上了“神作”的符号，爱他的读者对他的作品如痴如醉，即使不了解他的读者，也不得不承认他是个不可复制的天才作家。 ★译者简介 胡凯衡，博士，中国科学院成都山地灾害与环境研究所研究院研究员。

★著者简介 【美】大卫•福斯特·华莱士 （David Foster Wallace，1962—2008），我们这个时代著名的美国作家之一，与《自由》作者乔纳森·弗兰岑并称为“美国文坛双壁”。 大学的毕业论文是他的第一部小说《系统的笤帚》，名作《无尽的玩笑》被著名编辑迈克尔·皮奇惊叹 为“我想出版这本书胜过想呼吸”，并被《时代》周刊评选为1923年以来世界百部最佳英语小说之一。其未完成作品《苍白的国王》入围普利策奖最终名单。本人曾获得麦克阿瑟天才奖。 即使在天才遍地的欧美文坛，华莱士也是个极为特殊的存在。他对哲学的痴迷，对繁复长句子的无尽追求，让他的作品从一诞生就划上了“神作”的符号，爱他的读者对他的作品如痴如醉，即使不了解他的读者，也不得不承认他是个不可复制的天才作家。 ★译者简介 胡凯衡，博士，中国科学院成都山地灾害与环境研究所研究院研究员。

Is infinity a valid mathematical property or a meaningless abstraction? David Foster Wallace brings his intellectual ambition and characteristic bravura style to the story of how mathematicians have struggled to understand the infinite, from the ancient Greeks to the nineteenth-century mathematical genius Georg Cantor's counterintuitive discovery that there was more than one ki...(展开全部)

One of the outstanding voices of his generation, David Foster Wallace has won a large and devoted following for the intellectual ambition and bravura style of his fiction and essays. Now he brings his considerable talents to the history of one of math's most enduring puzzles: the seemingly paradoxical nature of infinity. Is infinity a valid mathematical property or a meaningles...(展开全部)

Is infinity a valid mathematical property or a meaningless abstraction? David Foster Wallace brings his intellectual ambition and characteristic bravura style to the story of how mathematicians have struggled to understand the infinite, from the ancient Greeks to the nineteenth-century mathematical genius Georg Cantor's counterintuitive discovery that there was more than one ki...(展开全部)

One of the outstanding voices of his generation, David Foster Wallace has won a large and devoted following for the intellectual ambition and bravura style of his fiction and essays. Now he brings his considerable talents to the history of one of math's most enduring puzzles: the seemingly paradoxical nature of infinity. Is infinity a valid mathematical property or a meaningles...(展开全部)

Philip Anderson was educated at University High School in Urbana, Illinois, at Harvard (BS 1943, PhD 1949), and further educated at Bell Laboratories, where his career (1949-1984) coincided with the greatest period of that remarkable institution. Starting in 1967, he shared his time with Cambridge University (until 1975) and then with Princeton, where he continued full time as ...(展开全部)

Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it suddenly became obvious that Soviet life had always seemed simultaneously eternal and stagnating, vigorous and ailing, bleak and full...(展开全部)

这是一个关于不能出门的女孩的故事。 Maddie患有SCID（严重复合型免疫不全症），无法离开有滤水器与空气滤净器的家。 她的母亲与照顾她的护士就是全世界…… 直到隔壁住进了一个男孩。 Olly和Maddie开始传简讯息与e-mail， 而Maddie发现 自己渐渐的爱上一个她永远也无法见到的男孩。

My disease is as rare as it is famous. Basically, I’m allergic to the world. I don’t leave my house, have not left my house in seventeen years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla. But then one day, a moving truck arrives next door. I look out my window, and I see him. He’s tall, lean and wearing all black—black T-shirt, black jeans, black sneakers, and a ...(展开全部)