Introducing Infinity - Couverture souple

Clegg, Brian

 
9781848314061: Introducing Infinity
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 184831406X ISBN 13 : 9781848314061
Editeur : Icon Books, 2012

Synopsis

Infinity is a profoundly counter-intuitive and brain-twisting subject that has inspired some great thinkers - and provoked and shocked others.

The ancient Greeks were so horrified by the implications of an endless number that they drowned the man who gave away the secret. And a German mathematician was driven mad by the repercussions of his discovery of transfinite numbers.

Brian Clegg and Oliver Pugh's brilliant graphic tour of infinity features a cast of characters ranging from Archimedes and Pythagoras to al-Khwarizmi, Fibonacci, Galileo, Newton, Leibniz, Cantor, Venn, Gödel and Mandelbrot, and shows how infinity has challenged the finest minds of science and mathematics. Prepare to enter a world of paradox.

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À propos de l?auteur

Brian Clegg is a science journalist and writer. He runs www.popularscience.co.uk and his previous books include Inflight Science (Icon Books, 2012) Before the Big Bang (St Martin's Griffin, 2011), Armageddon Science (St Martin's Press, 2010), and A Brief History of Infinity (Robinson Publishing, 2003). Oliver Pugh works in advertising.

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Éditeur
Icon Books
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
184831406X
ISBN 13 
9781848314061
Reliure
Broché
Illustrateur
Pugh Oliver
Nombre de pages
176
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Personne responsable
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