The Art of the Infinite

Our Lost Language of Numbers

Robert Kaplan, Ellen Kaplan (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

336 Seiten

2003
Allen Lane (Verlag)
978-0-7139-9629-6 (ISBN)

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This accessible work aims to inspire the general reader with the wonder and beauty of mathematics. The authors draw on science, literature, history, biography and philosophy, clarifying the knowledge that the patterns of mathematics are everywhere.

This accessible work aims to inspire the general reader with the wonder and beauty of mathematics - our first native language. To savour mathematics is to feel the same exhilaration that great music inspires - the wonder that something invented by humans is also timeless. The text starts from the basics, moving systematically to the frontiers of the topic. The authors draw on science, literature, history, biography and philosophy, clarifying the knowledge that patterns of mathematics are everywhere.

Co-authors Robert and Ellen Kaplan are husband and wife. Robert Kaplan has taught mathematics (most recently at Harvard Universtiy). He also taught Greek, German, Sanskrit and inspred guessing. In addition to teaching mathematics at Harvard University, Ellen Kaplan has taught history, Latin and biology. Together they have founded The Math Circle, a school for the enjoyment of pure mathematics

An invitation; time and the mind; how do we hold these truths?; designs on a locked chest; the infinite and the indefinite; skipping stones; Euclid alone; longing and the infinite; the eagle of algebra; into the Highlands; the infinite and the unknown; back of beyond; the abyss.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.8.2003
Zusatzinfo	b&w illustrations, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 240 mm
Gewicht	635 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geschichte der Mathematik
ISBN-10	0-7139-9629-3 / 0713996293
ISBN-13	978-0-7139-9629-6 / 9780713996296
Zustand	Neuware