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It connects set theory with broader spiritual and philosophical currents, showing how major mathematicians navigated crises, institutions, and personal fates. The narrative spans monastery imagery, mathematical breakthroughs, and historical controversies, culminating in reflections on the human dimension of mathematics across then and now.","Naming Infinity  \nNaming Infinity  \nA True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity  \nLoren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor  \nThe Belknap Press of  \nHarvard University Press  \nCambridge, Massachusetts  \nLondon, England  \nCopyright © 2009 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved  \nPrinted in the United States of America  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Graham, Loren R.  \nNaming infinity : a true story of religious mysticism and mathematical creativity /Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index.  \nISBN 978-0-674-03293-4 (alk. paper)  \n1. Mathematics—Russia (Federation)—Religious aspects.  \n2. Mysticism—Russia (Federation)  \n3. Mathematics—Russia (Federation)—Philosophy.  \n4. Mathematics—France—Religious aspects.  \n5. Mathematics—France—Philosophy. 6. Set theory.  \nI. Kantor, Jean-Michel. II. Title.  \nQA27.R8G73 2009  \n510.947 ′0904—dc22 2008041334  \nCONTENTS  \nIntroduction 1  \n1. Storming a Monastery 7  \n2. A Crisis in Mathematics 19  \n3. The French Trio: Borel, Lebesgue, Baire 33  \n4. The Russian Trio: Egorov, Luzin, Florensky 66  \n5. Russian Mathematics and Mysticism 91  \n6. The Legendary Lusitania 101  \n7. Fates ofthe Russian Trio 125  \n8. Lusitania and After 162  \n9. The Human in Mathematics, Then and Now 188  \nAppendix: Luzin’s Personal Archives 205  \nNotes 212  \nAcknowledgments 228  \nIndex 231  \nILLUSTRATIONS  \nFramed photos of Dmitri Egorov and Pavel Florensky. Photographed by Loren Graham in the basement of the Church of St. Tatiana the Martyr, 2004. 4  \nMonastery of St. Pantaleimon, Mt. Athos, Greece. 8  \nLarger and larger circles with segment approaching straight line, as suggested by Nicholas of Cusa. 25  \nCantor ternary set. 27  \nÉmile Borel. Reproduced by permission of Institut Mittag-Leffler and Acta Mathematica. 44  \nHenri Poincaré. Reproduced by permission of Institut Mittag-Leffler and Acta Mathematica. 46  \nHenri Lebesgue. Reproduced by permission of  \nL’enseignement mathématique. 48  \nRené Baire. Reproduced by permission of Institut MittagLeffler and Acta Mathematica. 52  \nArnaud Denjoy. 54  \nIllustrations  \nJacques Hadamard. Reproduced by permission of Institut Mittag-Leffler and Acta Mathematica. 57  \nCharles-Émile Picard. Reproduced by permission of Institut Mittag-Leffler and Acta Mathematica. 60  \nHotel Parisiana on the rue Tournefort in Paris, c. 1915. Reproduced from Anna Radwan, Mémoire des rues (Paris: Parimagine, 2006), p. 111. 81  \nNikolai Luzin in 1917. Courtesy of Uspekhi  \nmatematicheskikh nauk. 85  \nPavel Florensky. From Charles E. Ford,“Dmitrii Egorov: Mathematics and Religion in Moscow,” The Mathematical  \nIntelligencer, 13 (1991), pp. 24–30. Reproduced with the kind permission of Springer Science and Business Media. 89  \nBuilding of the old Moscow State University where the Lusitania seminars were held. Photograph by Loren Graham. 104  \nLuzin’s apartment on Arbat Street, Moscow. Photograph by Loren Graham. 107  \nInterior of Church of St. Tatiana the Martyr, Moscow. Photograph by Loren Graham. 111  \nNikolai Luzin, Waclaw Sierpinski, and Dmitri Egorov in Egorov’s apartment in Moscow. Photograph courtesy of  \nN. S. Ermolaeva and Springer Science and Business  \nMedia. 120  \nOtto Shmidt. Courtesy of the Shmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.  \n[http://www.ifz.ru/schmidt.html.](http://www.ifz.ru/schmidt.html. 123)[ 123](http://www.ifz.ru/schmidt.html. 123)  \n“A Temple of the Machine-Worshippers.” Drawing by  \nVladimir Krinski, c. 1925. 128  \n{ viii }  \nIllustrations  \nErnst Kol’man. Reproduced with the permission of Chalidze Publications from Ernst Kol’man, My ne dolzhny byli tak zhit’(New York: Chalidze Publications, 1982) . 130  \nNikolai Chebotaryov. Courtesy of the State University of Kazan, the Museum of History. 133  \nHospital in Kazan where Maria Smirnitskaia tried to save Egorov. Photograph by Loren Graham, 2004. 137  \nDmitri Egorov","cbCaipvDcSjO9cXU","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipvDcSjO9cXU","pdf",1784752,4,1,252,"English","en",105,"# Introduction\n# Storming a Monastery\n# A Crisis in Mathematics\n# The French Trio: Borel, Lebesgue, Baire\n# The Russian Trio: Egorov, Luzin, Florensky\n# Russian Mathematics and Mysticism\n# The Legendary Lusitania\n# Fates of the Russian Trio\n# Lusitania and After\n# The Human in Mathematics, Then and Now\n## Appendix: Luzin’s Personal Archives\n## Notes\n## Acknowledgments\n## Index","[{\"question\":\"What themes does Naming Infinity connect across mathematics and religion?\",\"answer\":\"The book connects set theory and mathematical creativity with religious mysticism, philosophy, and spiritual worldviews. 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