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Is God a mathematician? / Mario Livio.

Summary:

This fascinating exploration of the great discoveries of history's most important mathematicians seeks an answer to the eternal question: Does mathematics hold the key to understanding the mysteries of the physical world?

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780743294058
  • ISBN: 074329405X
  • ISBN: 9780743294065
  • Physical Description: x, 308 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First Simon & Schuster edition
  • Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-291) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
A mystery -- Mystics : the numerologist and the philsopher -- Magicians : the master and the heretic -- Magicians : the skeptic and the giant -- Statisticians and probabilists : the science of uncertainty -- Geometers : future shock -- Logicians : thinking about reasoning -- Unreasonable effectiveness? -- On the human mind, mathematics, and the universe.
Subject:
Mathematics > Philosophy.
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.
Mathematicians > Psychology.
Discoveries in science.

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  • 12 of 12 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Iredell County Public Library.

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