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Loren Graham, Jean-Michel Kantor: Naming Infinity (2009, Harvard University Press) No rating

In 1913, Russian imperial marines stormed an Orthodox monastery at Mt. Athos, Greece, to haul …

Not really worth reading. Largely a narrative that centers around the personalities involved, without actually getting into anything. Also several mistakes, for example it was Dedekind who defined infinity, not Cantor. But all this judgement might be due to my own familiarity with the works of these mathematicians.