Beyond Infinity

Eugenia Cheng (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2017
Basic Books (Verlag)
978-0-465-09481-3 (ISBN)

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"The hilarious and charming Eugenia Cheng leads us in search of what's bigger than infinity, and smaller than its opposite,"--Amazon.com.

"[Cheng] does a great service by showing us non-mathematician schlubs how real mathematical creativity works." -- Wall Street Journal How big is the universe? How many numbers are there? And is infinity + 1 is the same as 1 + infinity? Such questions occur to young children and our greatest minds. And they are all the same question: What is infinity? In Beyond Infinity, Eugenia Cheng takes us on a staggering journey from elemental math to its loftiest abstractions. Along the way, she considers how to use a chessboard to plan a worldwide dinner party, how to make a chicken-sandwich sandwich, and how to create infinite cookies from a finite ball of dough. Beyond Infinity shows how one little symbol holds the biggest idea of all.

Eugenia Cheng is the scientist in residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an honorary fellow at the University of Sheffield. She is the author of How to Bake Pi, Beyond Infinity, and The Art of Logic in an Illogical World. She lives in Chicago, Illinois.

Erscheinungsdatum	02.04.2017
Sprache	englisch
Maße	149 x 216 mm
Gewicht	431 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geschichte der Mathematik
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Logik / Mengenlehre
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	0-465-09481-3 / 0465094813
ISBN-13	978-0-465-09481-3 / 9780465094813
Zustand	Neuware