Introducing Infinity: A Graphic Guide
- ISBN-10
- 1848318839
- ISBN-13
- 9781848318830
- Category
- Mathematics
- Pages
- 176
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-12-01
- Publisher
- Icon Books Ltd
- Author
- Brian Clegg
Description
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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