Are Numbers Real?: The Uncanny Relationship of Mathematics and the Physical World
Have you ever wondered what humans did before numbers existed? How they organized their lives, traded goods, or kept track of their treasures? What would your life be like without them?Numbers began as simple representations of everyday things, but mathematics rapidly took on a life of its own, occupying a parallel virtual world. In Are Numbers Real?, Brian Clegg explores the way that math has become more and more detached from reality, and yet despite this is driving the development of modern physics. From devising a new counting system based on goats, through the weird and wonderful mathematics of imaginary numbers and infinity, to the deba…
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- ISBN: 978-1-250-08104-9
- EAN: 9781250081049
- Produktnummer: 19500554
- Verlag: St Martins Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Masse: H21.1 cm x B14.2 cm x D3.0 cm 386 g
- Gewicht: 386
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