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What is a Number?
Robert Tubbs
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Description for What is a Number?
Paperback. This historic and thematic study refutes the received wisdom that mathematical concepts are esoteric and divorced from other intellectual pursuits-revealing them instead as dynamic and intrinsic to almost every human endeavor. Num Pages: 320 pages, 84, 65 black & white line drawings, 19 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: PDZM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 430.
Mathematics often seems incomprehensible, a melee of strange symbols thrown down on a page. But while formulae, theorems, and proofs can involve highly complex concepts, the math becomes transparent when viewed as part of a bigger picture. What Is a Number? provides that picture. Robert Tubbs examines how mathematical concepts like number, geometric truth, infinity, and proof have been employed by artists, theologians, philosophers, writers, and cosmologists from ancient times to the modern era. Looking at a broad range of topics-from Pythagoras's exploration of the connection between harmonious sounds and mathematical ratios to the understanding of time in ... Read more
Mathematics often seems incomprehensible, a melee of strange symbols thrown down on a page. But while formulae, theorems, and proofs can involve highly complex concepts, the math becomes transparent when viewed as part of a bigger picture. What Is a Number? provides that picture. Robert Tubbs examines how mathematical concepts like number, geometric truth, infinity, and proof have been employed by artists, theologians, philosophers, writers, and cosmologists from ancient times to the modern era. Looking at a broad range of topics-from Pythagoras's exploration of the connection between harmonious sounds and mathematical ratios to the understanding of time in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801890185
SKU
V9780801890185
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About Robert Tubbs
Robert Tubbs is an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and the coauthor of Making Transcendence Transparent: An Intuitive Approach to Classical Transcendental Number Theory.
Reviews for What is a Number?
A very unusual book!... Every chapter offers a refreshing wealth of surprising connections, gently nudging readers to expand and assimilate their growing understanding of mathematics and its role in society... Highly recommended. Choice 2009 I recommend this book for teachers and college students interested in the role mathematics play in answering the big 'Whys?' of life.
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