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Allen, TJ

 
9798273952171: Mathematics: Humanities Favorite Illusion
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ISBN 13 : 9798273952171
Editeur : Independently published, 2025

Synopsis

Counting to Infinity and Back Again (and Getting Lost Halfway)

The story of mathematics begins, as all great stories do, with confusion. Someone, somewhere, looked at two goats and thought, “Wait, what if there were three?” From that moment on, humanity has been trying to turn chaos into arithmetic — to make the infinite behave politely.

Numbers were our first attempt to domesticate reality. They made the world measurable, predictable, even reassuring. Unfortunately, they also made it auditable, which is why no one truly loves math until the IRS leaves the room.

Mathematics, we’re told, is pure logic — the universal language. But the truth is far more delightful: math is a human hallucination that somehow keeps working. It’s our favorite illusion — the one that insists two apples are the same even though one’s bruised and the other’s plotting fruit flies.

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Éditeur
Independently published
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 13 
9798273952171
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
107
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