Number: The Language of Science - Softcover

Dantzig, Tobias; Mazur, Joseph

 
9780452288119: Number: The Language of Science
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0452288118 ISBN 13: 9780452288119
Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

"Beyond doubt the most interesting book on the evolution of mathematics which has ever fallen into my hands."—Albert Einstein

Number is an eloquent, accessible tour de force that reveals how the concept of number evolved from prehistoric times through the twentieth century.  Renowned professor of mathematics Tobias Dantzig shows that the development of math—from the invention of counting to the discovery of infinity—is a profoundly human story that progressed by “trying and erring, by groping and stumbling.” He shows how commerce, war, and religion led to advances in math, and he recounts the stories of individuals whose breakthroughs expanded the concept of number and created the mathematics that we know today.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tobias Dantzig was born in Russia, and was taught by Henri Poincaré in France before moving the United States. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Indiana, and was a professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland. He died in 1956.

Joseph Mazur is Professor of Mathematics at Marlboro College, where he has taught a wide range of classes in all areas of mathematics, its history, and philosophy.

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Verlag
Penguin Publishing Group
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0452288118
ISBN 13 
9780452288119
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
416
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