Who is Dave Eggers?
Dave Eggers is a writer best known for his memoir released in 2000, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, which told the story of raising his younger brother after both of his parents died. He is also the editor of a highly-regarded and popular quarterly literary magazine, called McSweeney’s. Dave Eggers was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1970, and was raised in nearby Lake Forest, an expensive suburb. He is married to fellow writer Vendela Vida. They have a daughter, October Adelaide Eggers Vida, who was born in October 2005. Before writing his bestselling book, Dave Eggers worked in San Francisco as a writer for the online journal, Salon.com, and served as the editor of a satirical magazine called Might. He also drew a satirical cartoon for the alternative weekly publication, SF Weekly. After the publication of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, however, Dave Eggers became a household name. The book was praised for its voice and its innovations with form, and was a finali
Infinity expert A.W. Moore compares David Foster Wallace’s Everything and More against two other books specializing in the subject and concludes that DFW is wrong: “The sections on set theory, in particular, are a disaster. When he lists the standard axioms of set theory from which mathematicians derive theorems about the iterative conception of a set, he gets the very first one wrong. (It is not, as Wallace says, that if two sets have the same members, then they are the same size. It is that two sets never do have the same members.)…He goes on to discuss Cantor’s unsolved problem, which I mentioned at the end of the previous paragraph. There are many different, equivalent ways of formulating the problem; Wallace gives four. The first and fourth are fine. The second, about whether the real numbers ‘constitute’ the set of sets of rational numbers, does not, as it stands, make sense. And the third, about whether the cardinal that measures the size of the set of real numbers can be obtain
