عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
QA93 .G8 1983
QA93
.
G8
1983
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
0874772338
(Number (ISBN
0874773458
(Number (ISBN
9780874772333
(Number (ISBN
9780874773453
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
b753998
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Bridges to infinity :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
the human side of mathematics /
First Statement of Responsibility
Michael Guillen.
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
1st ed.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Boston :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Distributed by Houghton Mifflin,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
©1983.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
204 pages ;
Dimensions
22 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-192) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Fantasizing -- Certain treasure -- Logic and proof -- Locating the vanishing point -- Limit and calculus -- Irrational thinking -- Continuity and numbers -- Beyond infinity -- Cantorian set theory and transfinite numbers -- Singular ideas -- Natural infinities -- Inventing reality -- Applying abstract mathematics -- Abstract symmetry -- Group theory -- Realm of manifold possibilities -- Dimension -- Zero and the null set -- Compromising -- Non-Euclidean geometries -- Article of faith -- Godel's theorem -- Optimizing -- Cloudy crystal ball -- Probability theory and statistics -- Between checkers and chess -- Two-person game theory -- Three-person game theory -- Topology -- Familiar faces of change -- Catastrophe theory -- Combinatorics.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
This book is an endlessly fascinating journey through a mathematician's looking glass.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Mathematics, Popular works.
Mathématiques, Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Mathematics.
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
510
Edition
19
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
QA93
Book number
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G8
1983
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Guillen, Michael.
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20201204133346.0
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
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