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Bridges to infinity: The human side of mathematics

By Michael , Guillen

Book information

Publisher
J.P. Tarcher, Distributed by Houghton Mifflin
Year
1983
ISBN
9780874772333, 0-87477-233-8, 9780874773453, 0874773458
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
1 MB (1187359 bytes)
Edition
1st ed
Pages
204\213
Library
kolxo3
Time added
2019-04-25 18:00:00
Mathematics -- Popular works.;Mathématiques -- Ou

Description

This book is an endlessly fascinating journey through a mathematician's looking glass. Abstract: This book is an endlessly fascinating journey through a mathematician's looking glass Content: Fantasizing -- Certain treasure -- Logic and proof -- Locating the vanishing point -- Limit and calculus -- Irrational thinking -- Continuity and numbers -- Beyond infinity -- Cantorian set theory and transfinite numbers -- Singular ideas -- Natural infinities -- Inventing reality -- Applying abstract mathematics -- Abstract symmetry -- Group theory -- Realm of manifold possibilities -- Dimension -- Zero and the null set -- Compromising -- Non-Euclidean geometries -- Article of faith -- Godel's theorem -- Optimizing -- Cloudy crystal ball -- Probablity theory and statistics -- Between checkers and chess -- Two-person game theory -- Three-person game theory -- Topology -- Familiar faces of change -- Catastrophe theory -- Combinatorics.

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