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Infinite Ascent - David Berlinski

Infinite Ascent

A Short History of Mathematics

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
208 Seiten
2007
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) (Verlag)
978-0-7538-2183-1 (ISBN)
CHF 15,65 inkl. MwSt
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The most important breakthroughs in the history of mathematics
From the Renaissance onwards, mathematics has had a near-mystical status. If the pragmatic Romans, and Christian Europe, did not share the Greeks' fascination with numbers and geometrical shapes, the introduction of Arabic numerals, and the Greek mathematical discoveries kept alive by Arabic scholars, set off a new interest in mathematics which has been with us ever since. Berlinski focuses on the key moments in mathematical history - and the men behind them. Here are Pythagoras, intoxicated by the mystical significance of numbers; Euclid, who gave the world the very idea of a proof; Leibniz and Newton, co-discovers of the calculus; Cantor, who opened the doors to infinity, before which all previous mathematicians had halted; and Godel, who in one magnificent proof placed everything in doubt and who discovered the algorithm which, along with the calculus, is one of the key ideas of Western science. With his ability to make abstract ideas concrete and approachable, Berlinski tells an engrossing tale and introduces us to one of the greatest of all human endeavours.

David Berlinski has taught mathematics, philosophy and English at Stanford, Rutgers and the City University of New York, and mathematics at the University of Paris. He has been a research fellow at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria and the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques in France. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He lives and works in Paris.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 4.1.2007
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 130 x 197 mm
Gewicht 180 g
Themenwelt Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Geschichte der Mathematik
ISBN-10 0-7538-2183-4 / 0753821834
ISBN-13 978-0-7538-2183-1 / 9780753821831
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