Marcel Danesi

Pythagoras' Legacy

Mathematics in Ten Great Ideas

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Marcel Danesi presents a historical overview of the ten greatest achievements in mathematics, and dynamically explores their importance and effects on our daily lives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780198852247
• ISBN-10: 019885224X
• Artikelnr.: 58456468

Autorenporträt

Marcel Danesi is Full Professor of Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Toronto and a Co-Director of the Cognitive Science Network of the Fields Institute of Mathematical Research. He has published extensively in the field of mathematical cognition and in the theory of mathematical puzzles. He also writes a blog for Psychology Today that explore the nature of the puzzling mind.

Inhaltsangabe

1: The Pythagorean Theorem: The Birth of Mathematics
2: Prime Numbers: The DNA of Mathematics
3: Zero: Place-Holder and Peculiar Number
4: Pi: A Ubiquitous and Strange Number
5: Exponents: Notation and Discovery
6: e: A Very Special Number
7: i: Imaginary Numbers
8: Infinity: A Counterintuitive and Paradoxical Idea
9: Decidability: The Foundations of Mathematics
10: The Algorithm: Mathematics and Computers