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Bridges to infinity : the human side of mathematics / Michael Guillen.
LIBRA - Special QA93 .G8 1983
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Guillen, Michael.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mathematics--Popular works.
- Mathematics.
- Genre:
- Popular works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 204 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles : J.P. Tarcher ; Boston : Distributed by Houghton Mifflin, [1983]
- Summary:
- This book is an endlessly fascinating journey through a mathematician's looking glass.
- Contents:
- Fantasizing
- Certain treasure
- Logic and proof
- Locating the vanishing point
- Limit and calculus
- Irrational thinking
- Continuity and numbers
- Beyond infinity
- Cantorian set theory and transfinite numbers
- Singular ideas
- Natural infinities
- Inventing reality
- Applying abstract mathematics
- Abstract symmetry
- Group theory
- Realm of manifold possibilities
- Dimension
- Zero and the null set
- Compromising
- Non-Euclidean geometries
- Article of faith
- Godel's theorem
- Optimizing
- Cloudy crystal ball
- Probablity theory and statistics
- Between checkers and chess
- Two-person game theory
- Three-person game theory
- Topology
- Familiar faces of change
- Catastrophe theory
- Combinatorics.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-192) and index.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0874772338
- 9780874772333
- 0874773458
- 9780874773453
- OCLC:
- 9894162
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