- Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.
- Year Published: 2009
- Description: x, 239 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- Language: English
- Format: Book
ISBN/Standard Number
- 9780674032934
- 0674032934
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- Mathematics -- Religious aspects. -- Russia (Federation)
- Mysticism -- Russia (Federation)
- Mathematics -- Philosophy. -- Russia (Federation)
- Mathematics -- Religious aspects. -- France
- Mathematics -- Philosophy. -- France
- Set theory.
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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 -- Appendix. Luzin's personal archives.
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