Introducing Infinity: A Graphic Guide
- Publisher : Icon Books
- Publishing year : September 2012
- Binding : Paperback
- ISBN : 9781848314061
- Imprint : Icon Books
- Age Group : Young Adult
- Language : English
Infinity is a profoundly counter-intuitive and brain-twisting subject that has inspired some great thinkers - and provok ...
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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