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In Search of Infinity Details
Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 511.322
EAN: 9780817638191
ISBN: 0817638199
Label: Birkhäuser Boston
Manufacturer: Birkhäuser Boston
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 145
Publication Date: 1995-08-11
Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston
Studio: Birkhäuser Boston
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Customer Rating:Summary: Great book for everybody (about Russian edition).
Comment: Everybody who has some interest to mathematics can understand this remarkable book. I was 17 when I read it first time. Now I have PhD in mathematics and often use examples from the book for my students and my children. Some things seem to be impossible (the curve covering a square, ...) but after reading this book one can feel it, not only understand.
Editorial Review for In Search of Infinity:
The concept of infinity has been for hundreds of years one of the most fascinating and elusive ideas to tantalize the minds of scholars and lay people alike. The theory of infinite sets lies at the heart of much mathematics, yet it has produced a series of paradoxes that have led many scholars to doubt the soundness of its foundations. The author of this book presents a popular-level account of the roads followed by human thought in an attempt to understand the idea of the infinite in mathematics and physics. In so doing, he brings to the general reader a deep insight into the nature of the problem and its importance to an understanding of our world.