Introduction to the David Foster Wallace special section of the \textit{Lettera Matematica International Edition}

DOI10.1007/S40329-015-0108-YzbMATH Open1432.01084OpenAlexW2236671089MaRDI QIDQ2304697FDOQ2304697

Authors: Stephen J. Burn 

Publication date: 13 March 2020

Published in: Lettera Matematica. International Edition (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40329-015-0108-y

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zbMATH Keywords

American literature in the 1990sliterature and mathematics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) Mathematics and literature (00A64)

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