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15%OFFA. W. F. Edwards - Cogwheels of the Mind: The Story of Venn Diagrams - 9780801874345 - V9780801874345
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Cogwheels of the Mind: The Story of Venn Diagrams

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Description for Cogwheels of the Mind: The Story of Venn Diagrams Hardback. For anyone interested in mathematics or its history, Cogwheels of the Mind is invaluable and compelling reading. Num Pages: 128 pages, 12, 12 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 183 x 242 x 15. Weight in Grams: 496.
Used today in spheres of life as diverse as business strategy, creative writing, medicine, computer science, and theoretical physics, Venn diagrams possess fascinating properties. The basic Venn diagram is both elegantly simple-three overlapping circles that intersect to create eight distinct areas-and conceptually innovative. Devised by English logician John Venn (1834-1923) to visually represent complex logical propositions and algebraic statements, the diagrams drew the excited interest of both scholars and the general public. In Cogwheels of the Mind, statistician and geneticist A. W. F. Edwards provides an accessible and engaging history of the Venn diagram, its reception and evolution, ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801874345
SKU
V9780801874345
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About A. W. F. Edwards
A. W. F. Edwards is, like John Venn before him, a fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He is the author of Likelihood and Pascal's Arithmetical Triangle, both available from Johns Hopkins.

Reviews for Cogwheels of the Mind: The Story of Venn Diagrams
Edwards arrives with this pleasing little history about who John Venn was, why he conceived of the diagram, and the properties that lie secreted beneath such a seemingly simple mathematical object... A world-class authority, Edwards... proves himself wholly accessible to anyone interested in reading about mathematics. Booklist Deserves to become a minor classic and may well go on to make ... Read more

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