The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Math - Couverture souple

Suri, Manil

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1324065931 ISBN 13 : 9781324065937

Editeur : W. W. Norton & Company, 2023

Synopsis

Our universe has multiple origin stories, from religious creation myths to the Big Bang of scientists. But if we leave those behind and start from nothing--no matter, no cosmos, not even empty space--could we create a universe using only math? Irreverent, richly illustrated, and boundlessly creative, The Big Bang of Numbers invites us to try.

In this new mathematical origin story, mathematician and novelist Manil Suri creates a natural progression of ideas needed to design our world, starting with numbers and continuing through geometry, algebra, and beyond. He reveals the secret lives of real and imaginary numbers, teaches them to play abstract games with real-world applications, discovers unexpected patterns that connect humble lifeforms to enormous galaxies, and explores mathematical underpinnings for randomness and beauty. With evocative examples ranging from multidimensional crochet to the Mona Lisa's asymmetrical smile, as well as ingenious storytelling that helps illuminate complex concepts like infinity and relativity, The Big Bang of Numbers charts a playful, inventive course to existence. Mathematics, Suri shows, might best be understood not as something we invent to explain Nature, but as the source of all creation, whose directives Nature tries to obey as best she can.

Offering both striking new perspectives for math aficionados and an accessible introduction for anyone daunted by calculation, The Big Bang of Numbers proves that we can all fall in love with math.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Manil Suri is the internationally acclaimed author of The Death of Vishnu and other books. His fiction has won the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize and been nominated for the Booker Prize and several other awards. He lives with his husband in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: W. W. Norton & Company
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1324065931
• ISBN 13: 9781324065937
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
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• Personne responsable: non disponible