₨ 59,720
ISBN: 0124808735
Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENTIFIC
Subtitle:
Author: ISAAK MAYERGOYZ
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| Weight | 0.81 kg |
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| ISBN | 0124808735 |
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| Publication Date | 2005 |
| Pages | 472 |
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ISBN: 0201340240
Publisher: ADDISON WESLEY
Subtitle: 3RD ED
Author: MARVIN L. BITTINGER
ISBN: 9780393117523
Publisher: W. W. NORTON & COMPANY
Subtitle:
Author: CARL P. SIMON
ISBN: 0521269806
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Author: BRAIN BOLT
ISBN: 3540585826
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Subtitle: VOL 138.
Author: ROSAMUND SUTHERLAND
ISBN: 0691070202
Publisher: PRINCEON
Subtitle: AN EXPLORATIONS OF IDEAS ACROSS CULTURES
Author: MARCIA ASCHER
ISBN: 0415334144
Publisher: CRC PRESS
Subtitle:
Author: PETER DALE
In this delightful new book, Robert Kaplan, writing together with his wife Ellen Kaplan, once again takes us on a witty, literate, and accessible tour of the world of mathematics. Where The Nothing That Is looked at math through the lens of zero, The Art of the Infinite takes infinity, in its countless guises, as a touchstone for understanding mathematical thinking. Tracing a path from Pythagoras, whose great Theorem led inexorably to a discovery that his followers tried in vain to keep secret (the existence of irrational numbers); through Descartes and Leibniz; to the brilliant, haunted Georg Cantor, who proved that infinity can come in different sizes, the Kaplans show how the attempt to grasp the ungraspable embodies the essence of mathematics. The Kaplans guide us through the “Republic of Numbers,” where we meet both its upstanding citizens and more shadowy dwellers; and we travel across the plane of geometry into the unlikely realm where parallel lines meet. Along the way, deft character studies of great mathematicians (and equally colorful lesser ones) illustrate the opposed yet intertwined modes of mathematical thinking: the intutionist notion that we discover mathematical truth as it exists, and the formalist belief that math is true because we invent consistent rules for it.
ISBN: 019514743X
Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle: THE PLEASURES OF MATHEMATICS
Author: ROBERT KAPLAN AND ELLEN KAPLAN
