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Infinity / by Lilian R. Lieber ; with drawings by Hugh Gray Lieber.
LIBRA 510 L624.2
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection QA9 .L52 1953 Zinman copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lieber, Lillian R. (Lillian Rosanoff), 1886-1986.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Infinite.
- Penn Provenance:
- Zinman, Michael (donor) (Zinman copy)
- Physical Description:
- 359 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Rinehart, 1953.
- Contents:
- Our good friend sam
- Infinity in the physical world
- Inifinity in mathematics
- More about "potential" inifinity
- Non-euclidean geometries
- "Actual" infinity
- "Actual" infinity continued
- Still greater "actual" infinity
- Continuum of real numbers
- How to go from 0 to c
- Operations on transfinites
- Higher dimensions
- Hierarchy of infinites
- Brief summary
- Is it legitimate?
- Some very interesting infinite sets
- Applications: zeno et al
- Calculus of newton and leibnitz
- Calculus of newton and leibnitz cont.
- Areas
- Fundamental theorem of the integral calculus
- Modern integration
- Modern integration cont.
- Concluding chapter on modern integration
- Paradoxes
- Paradoxes in the theory of transfinites and how theyhave been conquered
- Moral.
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries Zinman copy has dust jacket.
- Contains:
- Zinman Atomic Energy Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
- Other Format:
- Online version: Lieber, Lillian R. (Lillian Rosanoff), 1886-1986. Infinity.
- OCLC:
- 964418
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