The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men
A Cultural History
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- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
30 September 2021
Summary
Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? Do numbers truly exist? What sort of reality do formulas describe?
The complexity of mathematics - its abstract rules and obscure symbols - can seem very distant from the everyday. There are those things that are real and present, it is supposed, and then there are mathematical concepts- creations of our mind, mysterious tools for those unengaged with the world. Yet, from its most remote history and deepest purpose, mathematics has served no…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141986487 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141986484 |
| Author: | Paolo Zellini |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 30 September 2021 |
| Weight: | 191g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 15mm |
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Full of interesting ideas, insightful and thought-provoking … A stimulating book that perhaps leaves the reader with more questions than answers. That, in case you are wondering, is intended as praise – Tony Mann * Times Higher Education *
About The Author
Paolo Zellini
Paolo Zellini is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Rome where his research focuses on numerical analysis and the evolution of mathematical thought. He is the author of the international bestseller A Brief History of Infinity which Italo Calvino described as ‘one of the most important books of the twentieth or twenty-first centuries’.
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