Infinity category: 20 books
Eight Lessons on Infinity
A Mathematical Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
A fun, non-technical and wonderfully engaging guide to that most powerful and mysterious of mathematical concepts: infinity.in this book, best-selling author and mathematician Haim Shapira presents an introduction to mathematical theories which deal with the most beautiful concept ever invented by...
Beyond Infinity
An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
A mind-expanding and funny trip to the edge of mathematics
How big is the universe? How many numbers are there? And is infinity + 1 is the same as 1 + infinity? Such questions occur to young children and our greatest minds. And they are all the same question: What is infinity? In Beyond Infinity,...
The End of Infinity
Where Mathematics and Philosophy Meet
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
The idea of infinity stands at the intersection of mathematics and philosophy. As da Vinci said, "Arithmetic is a computational science in its calculations, but it is of no avail in dealing with continuous quantity."The End of Infinity reviews the philosophical history of infinity, mathematics,...
Introducing Infinity
A Graphic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
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...
by James A. Lindsay, Victor J. Stenger
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Infinity and God have been close bedfellows over the recent millennia of human thought. But this is James A. Lindsay's point. These two ideas are thought, mere concepts. Lindsay shows in a concise and readable manner that infinity is an abstraction, and shows that, in all likelihood, so is God, particularly...
by David Foster Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
"A gripping guide to the modern taming of the infinite."—The New York Times. With a new introduction by Neal Stephenson.
Is infinity a valid mathematical property or a meaningless abstraction? David Foster Wallace brings his intellectual ambition and characteristic bravura style to the story...
The Infinite Book
A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
For a thousand years, infinity has proven to be a difficult and illuminating challenge for mathematicians and theologians. It certainly is the strangest idea that humans have ever thought. Where did it come from and what is it telling us about our Universe? Can there actually be infinities? Is matter...
by Seymour B. Elk
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2016
Understanding Calculus as a Logical Extension of Arithmetic re-examines the calculus paradigm by expanding the set of ‘indeterminate forms’ espoused by l’Hôpital 320 years ago. Starting from the 54 possible binary combinations of the foundational numbers (zero, one and infinity), a replacement...
by Abdul Ghani M V
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Laws or theorm to deal easily with infinity and zero. The best and the most useful theorm.
by Peter F. Erickson
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2006
Erickson explores and explains the infinite and the infinitesimal with application to absolute space, time and motion, as well as absolute zero temperature in this thoughtful treatise. Mathematicians, scientists and philosophers have explored the realms of the continuous and discrete for centuries....
Weird Math
A Teenage Genius and His Teacher Reveal the Strange Connections Between Math and Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
A teenage genius and his teacher take readers on a wild ride to the extremes of mathematics
Everyone has stared at the crumpled page of a math assignment and wondered, where on Earth will I ever use this? It turns out, Earth is precisely the place. As teen math prodigy Agnijo Banerjee and his...
The Art of the Infinite
The Pleasures of Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
A witty, conversational, and accessible tour of math's profoundest mysteries.
Mathematical symbols, for mathematicians, store worlds of meaning, leap continents and centuries. But we need not master symbols to grasp the magnificent abstractions they represent, and to which all art aspires....
Nothing
Surprising Insights Everywhere from Zero to Oblivion
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Incredible discoveries from the fringes of the universe to the inner workings of our minds—all from nothing!
It turns out that almost nothing is as curious—or as enlightening—as, well, nothing. What is nothingness? Where can it be found? The writers of the world's top-selling science...
by James M Hyslop
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Intended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, this concise text focuses on the convergence of real series. Definitions of the terms and summaries of those results in analysis that are of special importance in the theory of series are specified at the outset. In the interests of maintaining...
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