Brian Clegg: Introducing Infinity
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- Kategoria: luonnontieteet, alakategoria: tähtitiede, geodesia
- Materiaali: Pokkari
- Kustantaja: ICON BOOKS
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9781848314061
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Infinity is a profoundly counter-intuitive and brain-twisting subject that has inspired some great thinkers — and provoked and shocked others. The ancient Greeks were so horrified by the implications of an endless number that they drowned the man who gave away the secret. And a German mathematician was driven mad by the repercussions of his discovery of transfinite numbers. Brian Clegg and Oliver Pugh's brilliant graphic tour of infinity features a cast of characters ranging from Archimedes and Pythagoras to al-Khwarizmi, Fibonacci, Galileo, Newton, Leibniz, Cantor, Venn, Godel and Mandelbrot, and shows how infinity has challenged the finest minds of science and mathematics. Prepare to enter a world of paradox.