WHERE WE ARE GOING STOPS ALONG THE WAY THE GUIDE INSPIRATIONS
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But there is attraction in forbidden knowledge, as in the edge
of the abyss. Where the footstep cannot tread, the
eye may reach; where the eye can
penetrate no further,
the mind may
soar.
∞ V. Hugo, Toilers of the Sea
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The inspirations for Falling from Infinity are many. Here is an ever-growing list of references shaping the course; it is organized broadly by topic. Recommendations are welcome.
∞ Infinity Aczel, Amir D. The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2000. Barrow, John D. The Infinite Book: A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless. New York: Vintage Books, 2005. Clegg, Brian. Infinity: The Quest to Think the Unthinkable. 1st Carroll & Graf ed. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2003. Gamow, George. One, Two, Three Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science. New York: Dover, 1947. Hemmings, Ray and Dick Tahta. Images of Infinity. Leapfrogs, 1884. Maor, Eli. To Infinity and Beyond: A Cultural History of the Infinite. Boston: Birkhäuser, 1987. Oppy, Graham. Philosophical Perspectives on Infinity. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Peterson, Ivars. Fragments of Infinity: A Kaleidoscope of Math and Art. New York: Wiley, 2001. Rucker, Rudy. Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philsophy of the Infinite. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. Wallace, David Foster. Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity. New York: Atlas Books, 2003.
Barrow, John D. The book of nothing: vacuums, voids, and the latest Ideas about the origins of the universe. New York: Vintage Books, 2000. Kaplan, Robert. The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Seife,
Charles. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea. New York: Viking,
2000.
Clawson, Calvin C. Mathematical Mysteries: The Beauty and Magic of Numbers. New York: Plenum Press, 1996. Clawson, Calvin C. Mathematical Sorcery: Revelaing the Secrets of Numbers. New York: Basic Books, 1999. Dantzig, Tobias. Number: The Language of Science. Ed. Joseph Mazur. New York: Plume, 2007. Kaplan,
Robert and Ellen Kaplan. The Art of the Infinite: The Pleasures of
Mathematics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Hawking, S. W. The Illustrated a Brief History of Time. Updated and expanded ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1996.
Erickson, Kathleen Powers. At Eternity's Gate: The Spiritual Vision of Vincent Van Gogh. Grand Rapids, Mich: W.B. Eerdmans, 1998. Works from:
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Adams, Douglas. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. New York: Ballantine Books, 2002. Borges, Jorge Luis, “The Aleph,” The Aleph and Other Stories, 1933-1969, Together with Commentaries and an Autobiographical Essay. Ed. Norman Thomas di Giovanni. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1970. ———. The Book of Sand and Shakespeare’s Memory. New York: Penguin Putnam, Inc., 1998. ———. Ficciones. Ed. Anthony Kerrigan. New York: Grove Press, 1962. Enzensberger, Hans Magnus. The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure. Translated by Michael Henry Heim. New York: Henry Hlt & Company, 1998. Hugo, Victor. Les Misérables. New York: Modern Library, 1992. Hugo, Victor and Isabel Florence Hapgood. The Toilers of the Sea. New York: Heritage Press, 1961. Joyce, James. “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners. New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2004. Juster, Norton and Jules Feiffer. The Phantom Tollbooth. New York: Epstein & Carroll; distributed by Random House, 1961. Lightman, Alan P. Einstein's Dreams. 1st ed. New York: Pantheon Books, 1993. Millhauser, Steven. Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. Pascal, Blaise. Pensées and Other Writings. Translated by Honor Levi. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Rucker, Rudy. White Light. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1980. St. Augustine. “Confessions,” Classics of Western Philosophy, 6th Ed. Ed. Steven M. Cahn. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2002. 353-365. von Kleist, Heinrich. “On the Puppet Theater,” An Abyss Deep Enough. Ed. Philip B. Miller. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1982. 211-216.
Bloch, William Goldbloom. The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Hofstadter, Douglas R. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. New York: Basic Books, 1979.
Works from:
Cosmic Voyage. Director: Bayley Silleck. Dangerous Knowledge. Director: David Malone. The Fantastic World of M.C. Escher. Acorn Media. Fractals: The Colors of Infinity. Newbridge Communications. Hotel Infinity. Director: Amanda Boyle Powers of 10. Director: Charles Eames.
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