How to Count to Infinity - Du Sautoy, Marcus
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'Sometimes all it takes is someone showing you that you can.' Birds do it, bees do it. Even fleas do it. Animal or human, we've always used counting to find our way through the jungle of life. Ancient Babylonians used their bodies to count to 60. Indian mathematicians in the 7th century discovered the number 0. And we've also always wondered: is there a final number? Does infinity ever end? What did Buzz Lightyear even mean? One of the world's most respected mathematicians, Marcus du Sautoy, unlocks this mystery. Just using the finite neurons in your brain and the finite pages in this book,…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
'Sometimes all it takes is someone showing you that you can.' Birds do it, bees do it. Even fleas do it. Animal or human, we've always used counting to find our way through the jungle of life. Ancient Babylonians used their bodies to count to 60. Indian mathematicians in the 7th century discovered the number 0. And we've also always wondered: is there a final number? Does infinity ever end? What did Buzz Lightyear even mean? One of the world's most respected mathematicians, Marcus du Sautoy, unlocks this mystery. Just using the finite neurons in your brain and the finite pages in this book, you'll have your mind blown discovering the secret of how to count to infinity.
Autorenporträt
Marcus du Sautoy is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford where he holds the prestigious Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science and is a Fellow of New College. Du Sautoy has received a number of awards for his work including the London Mathematical Society's Berwick Prize for outstanding mathematical research and the Royal Society of London's Michael Faraday Prize for 'excellence in communicating science'. He has been awarded an OBE for his services to science and was recently elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. His mathematical research has covered a great many areas including group theory, number theory and model theory, but he has been equally successful in his promotion of mathematics to the general public. He has published a number of best-selling, non-academic books and appears regularly on television and radio.