| Edition |
First Simon and Schuster hardcover edition. |
| Description |
x, 308 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-291) and index. |
| Summary |
This fascinating exploration of the great discoveries of history's most important mathematicians seeks an answer to the eternal question: Does mathematics hold the key to understanding the mysteries of the physical world? |
| Contents |
A mystery -- Mystics : the numerologist and the philsopher -- Magicians : the master and the heretic -- Magicians : the skeptic and the giant -- Statisticians and probabilists : the science of uncertainty -- Geometers : future shock -- Logicians : thinking about reasoning -- Unreasonable effectiveness? -- On the human mind, mathematics, and the universe. |
| Subject |
Mathematics -- Philosophy.
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Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.
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Mathematicians -- Psychology.
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Discoveries in science.
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| ISBN |
9780743294058 |
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074329405X |
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