Abstract
While Wallace’s nonfiction is voraciously eclectic—exploring film, pornography, luxury cruises—the only time that he devoted an entire book of his nonfiction to a single subject was when he completed his 2004 study of Cantorian mathematics. Everything and More’s very uniqueness may make it seem an anomalous subset of Wallace’s output, yet—this essay argues—Wallace often drew upon math as a way address truths that were difficult to reach through language’s looping systems. Though mathematical ideas are present in the short story collections Girl with Curious Hair and Oblivion, and Infinite Jest provides the stage for Wallace’s most systematic use of mathematical concepts, and conformal transformations, in particular, can be located in that novel’s complicated approach to consciousness.
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