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9781568812540
Yearning for the Impossible: The Surprising Truths of Mathematics
by John C. Stillwell
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- ISBN-13: 9781568812540
- ISBN: 156881254X
- Publication Date: 2006
- Publisher: A K Peters/CRC Press
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SUMMARY
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 imbedding mathematics into a broader cultural context and through his clever and enthusiastic explication of mathematical ideas the author broadens the horizon of students beyond the narrow confines of rote memorisation and engages those who are curious about the place of mathematics in our intellectual landscape.John C. Stillwell is the author of 'Yearning for the Impossible: The Surprising Truths of Mathematics', published 2006 under ISBN 9781568812540 and ISBN 156881254X.
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