Number and Numbers

“A bracing alternative both to the sterile and dry discussions that constitute much of the literature on mathematics and to the daily incursion of pie-charts, mortgage payments and bills that make up most of our dealings with numbers. Badiou’s own ‘history of eternity’ is a manifesto for the future of mathematics, and of philosophy’s role in appreciating that future.”
The Philosophers' Magazine

“Badiou’s major foray into the philosophy of mathematics displays his trademark blend of intricacy and daring. His purpose is to renew our sense of the dignity, even majesty of numbers – and so bolster our resistance to a world of brute calculation.”
Peter Dews, University of Essex