Introducing Infinity

A Graphic Guide

von Brian Clegg

176 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Graphic Guides
• Themen: Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften Naturwissenschaften, allgemein Populärwissenschaftliche Werke Populäre Mathematik und Mathematik als Freizeitbeschäftigung
• ISBN: 9781848314061
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 06.09.2012
• Größe: 176 x 121 mm
• Verlag: Icon Books
• Illustrationen: Oliver Pugh