An entertaining history of the idea of nothing - including absences, omissions, and shadows - from the Ancient Greeks through the 20th centuryHow can nothing cause something?
An entertaining history of the idea of nothing - including absences, omissions, and shadows - from the Ancient Greeks through the 20th centuryHow can nothing cause something?
Sie kamen aus allen Schichten und lebten in aller Herren Länder; sie waren Exzentriker wie Isaac Newton, Außenseiter wie Alan Turing oder gehörten zum Establishment wie Pierre de Fermat.
Mathematics is a fundamental human activity that can be practised and understood in a multitude of ways; indeed, mathematical ideas themselves are far from being fixed, but are adapted and changed by their passage across periods and cultures.
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Kurt Godel first published his celebrated theorem, showing that no axiomatization can determine the whole truth and nothing but the truth concerning arithmetic, nearly a century ago.
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Kurt Godel first published his celebrated theorem, showing that no axiomatization can determine the whole truth and nothing but the truth concerning arithmetic, nearly a century ago.
Mathematics is a fundamental human activity that can be practised and understood in a multitude of ways; indeed, mathematical ideas themselves are far from being fixed, but are adapted and changed by their passage across periods and cultures.
Ein spannender Streifzug durch die Geschichte der MathematikVon der Antike bis zur Gegenwart: Der Mathematiker Edmund Weitz erzählt von fünf vielumrätselten Fehlstellen der Mathematik und zeigt, dass die Mathematik zwar nicht alle Probleme lösen kann, dass sie im scheinbaren Scheitern aber immer wieder zur Quelle neuer Erkenntnisse über die Welt wird – mathematisch ebenso wie philosophisch: Warum lässt sich die Fläche eines Kreises nicht exakt auf ein Quadrat übertragen?
Combining myth, biography, and wit, this is a highly original depiction of cutting-edge science and its profound implications, told through the scientists who are rewriting life on earth.
The Top 10 Sunday Times BestsellerNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREOscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted ScreenplaySet amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA's African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America's space program.
Ha sido preocupación primordial del autor procurar destacar lo que la realidad y el tiempo han situado y mantenido en primer plano de importancia, y establecer la gradación hacia ideas menores, aunque también valiosas.
Una fascinante historia salpicada de anécdotas, paradojas y personajes singulares, en busca de los fundamentos de la matemáticas y el pensamiento racional.
El matemático Manuel Sadosky (1914-2005) tiene ganado un merecido reconocimiento en la historia de la ciencia como "Padre de la computación en Argentina".
Von der griechischen Philosophie ausgehend zeichnet der Mathematiker Rudolf Taschner ein faszinierendes Bild von der Auseinandersetzung mit der Fassbarkeit des Unendlichen.
Author, astrologer, journalist, satirist, and 'well-willer to the mathematics', Poor Robin of Saffron Walden was a fantastic, yet invented, figure of British popular culture from the Restoration to the end of the Georgian period.
Author, astrologer, journalist, satirist, and 'well-willer to the mathematics', Poor Robin of Saffron Walden was a fantastic, yet invented, figure of British popular culture from the Restoration to the end of the Georgian period.
