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Fully illustrated, this story brings together the histories of arts and mathematics and shows how infinity at last acquired a precise mathematical meaning.
A Brief History of Infinity
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Pages: 185
Authors: Brian Clegg
Categories: Mathematics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-02-07 - Publisher: Robinson

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'Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the street to the ch
A Brief History of Infinity
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Pages: 212
Authors: Paolo Zellini
Categories: Mathematics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Penguin Global

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In A Brief History of Infinity, the infinite in all its forms - viewed from the perspective of mathematicians, philosophers, and theologians - is explored, as Z
The Beginning of Infinity
Language: en
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Authors: David Deutsch
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'Science has never had an advocate quite like David Deutsch ... A computational physicist on a par with his touchstones Alan Turing and Richard Feynman, and a p
Naming Infinity
Language: en
Pages: 252
Authors: Loren Graham
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-03-31 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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