The art of the infinite : the pleasures of mathematics /
The Art of the Infinite takes infinity, in its countless guises, as a touchstone for understanding mathematical thinking. Tracing a path from Pythagoras, whose great Theorem led inexorably to a discovery that his followers tried in vain to keep secret (the existence of irrational numbers); through D...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2003]
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Invitation
- Time and the mind
- How do we hold these truths?
- Designs on a locked chest
- Infinite and the indefinite
- Skipping stones
- Euclid alone
- Longing and the infinite
- Eagle of algebra
- Into the Highlands
- Infinite and the unknown
- Back of beyond
- Abyss.