Robert Kaplan, Ellen Kaplan

The Art of the Infinite (eBook, ePUB)

The Pleasures of Mathematics

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A witty, conversational, and accessible tour of math's profoundest mysteries.

Mathematical symbols, for mathematicians, store worlds of meaning, leap continents and centuries. But we need not master symbols to grasp the magnificent abstractions they represent, and to which all art aspires. Through language, anyone can come to delight in the works of mathematical art, which are among our kind's greatest glories.

Taking the concept of infinity, in its countless guises, as a starting point and a helpful touchstone, the founders of Harvard's pioneering Math Circle program Robert and Ellen Kaplan guide us through the "Republic of Numbers," where we meet both its upstanding citizens and its more shadowy dwellers, explore realms where only the imagination can go, and grapple with math's most profound uncertainties, including the question of truth itself-do we discover mathematical principles, or invent them?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781608198887
• Artikelnr.: 41073588

Autorenporträt

Robert Kaplan has taught mathematics to people from six to sixty, at leading independent schools and most recently at Harvard University. He is the author of the best-selling The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero, which has been translated into 10 languages, and, with his wife, Ellen, the co-author of The Art of the Infinite.