(Download) Yearning for the Impossible: The Surprising Truths of Mathematics
• John C. Stillwell •
| #1286397 in Books | 2006-05-23 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.10 x.80 x6.10l,1.10 | File Name: 156881254X | 230 pages
||22 of 22 people found the following review helpful.| Beyond Common Sense|By Lew. Robinson|I liked this book. I particularly liked Chapter 1, The Irrational, Chapter 5, Curved Space, and Chapter 6, The Fourth Dimension.
Chapter 7, The Ideal, is also excellent and alone worth the purchase price, albeit the reader needs to follow closely the notational details and diagrams. In fact Chapter 7 is the reason I bought the|||Like the White Queen in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, mathematicians are called upon to believe in things that, at first glance, defy common sense and appear impossible. . . . As Stillwell puts it, 'Mathematics is a story of close encou
This book explores the history of mathematics from the perspective of the creative tension between common sense and the "impossible" as the author follows the discovery or invention of new concepts that have marked mathematical progress: - Irrational and Imaginary Numbers - The Fourth Dimension - Curved Space - Infinity and others The author puts these creations into a broader context involving related "impossibilities" from art, literature, philosophy, and physics. By ...
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You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Yearning for the Impossible: The Surprising Truths of Mathematics | John C. Stillwell. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
