Poetry of the Universe: A Mathematical Exploration of the Cosmos
Osserman, Robert
ISBN 10: 0385473400 ISBN 13: 9780385473408
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Book by Osserman Robert
Présentation de l'éditeur: In the bestselling literary tradition of Lewis Thomas's Lives of a Cell and James Watson's The Double Helix, Poetry of the Universe is a delightful and compelling narrative charting the evolution of mathematical ideas that have helped to illuminate the nature of the observable universe. In a richly anecdotal fashion, the book explores the leaps of imagination and vision in mathematics that have helped pioneer our understanding of the world around us.
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Titre : Poetry of the Universe: A Mathematical ...
Éditeur : Doubleday (edition 1st)
Date d'édition : 1995
Reliure : Hardcover
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Poetry of the Universe
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Doubleday Books January 1995, 1995
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Poetry of the Universe: A Mathematical Exploration of the Cosmos
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Doubleday, New York, 1995
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Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. Second Printing. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 210 pages. Illustrated with half-tones, drawings and maps. Second printing. No previous ownership marks. A very clean square, fresh and crisp copy, as new. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. N° de réf. du vendeur 014260
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Poetry of the Universe: A Mathematical Exploration of the Cosmos
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Doubleday, 1995
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Hardcover. Etat : New. Etat de la jaquette : New. 1st Edition. Synopsis: Using illustrations and a minimum of mathematical formulas, a narrative journeys from ancient Greece to recent discoveries about background radiation in space to illuminate the interplay between mathematical theory and attempts to unlock the secrets of the universe From Booklist: With nary an equation to confuse, a Stanford math professor clearly distills for a general readership the seminal ideas behind the notion that space has curvature and is not flat as ordinary humans perceive it. Osserman has been working up to this book through his classes for humanities majors, and the result is as lucid, comprehensible, and engaging as will be found in this category of scientific writing. He begins with ancient measurements of the earth, in which Euclid's geometry figures critically, but reaches cruising speed in his presentations of the nineteenth-century German mathematicians Carl Friedrich Gauss and Georg Friedrich Riemann. They are the best-known inventors of non-Euclidean geometry, whose commonest concept is that not all angles of all triangles add up to 180; the sum depends on the curvature of the surface in question. The ramifications cascade from there, into the shape of the retroverse, as the author tags our celestial view back into time and on toward invented abstract multidimensional shapes dubbed manifolds. Libraries know the popularity of sagas on observational astronomy and particle physics, and this examination of the mathematical component, specifically the species of geometry, fits well within their compass. A warm invitation to the aesthetics of math on the largest scale. Gilbert Taylor "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. N° de réf. du vendeur 179
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Poetry of the Universe: A Mathematical Exploration of the Cosmos
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Anchor Books / Doubleday, New York, 1995
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Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. Very Near Fine. New York: Anchor Books / Doubleday, 1995. First Edition and First Printing. 12mo, illustrated jacket, gray and red boards, 210 pp. Near Fine book in Near Fine jacket, in fact quite flawless but for a dimple at top right (see scan) in each case. L-23. N° de réf. du vendeur 010054
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