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Mathematics: The New Golden Age
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Hardcover
New edition from Columbia Univ Pr (October 1, 1999)
9780231116381 | details & prices | 320 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 1.00 in. | 1.35 lbs | List price $73.00
About: Presents a survey of advances in mathematics over the past twenty-five years, including such topics as prime numbers, factories, sets, and number systems
About: Presents a survey of advances in mathematics over the past twenty-five years, including such topics as prime numbers, factories, sets, and number systems
Paperback
Rev sub edition from Columbia Univ Pr (March 1, 2001)
9780231116398 | details & prices | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $27.00
About: Mathematics: The New Golden Age offers a glimpse of the extraordinary vistas and bizarre universes opened up by contemporary mathematicians: Hilbert's tenth problem and the four-color theorem, Gaussian integers, chaotic dynamics and the Mandelbrot set, infinite numbers, and strange number systems.
About: Mathematics: The New Golden Age offers a glimpse of the extraordinary vistas and bizarre universes opened up by contemporary mathematicians: Hilbert's tenth problem and the four-color theorem, Gaussian integers, chaotic dynamics and the Mandelbrot set, infinite numbers, and strange number systems.
With Keith Devlin |
2 edition from Gardners Books (May 28, 1998)
9780140258653 | details & prices | 320 pages | List price $23.45
About: In this computerized world, mathematics has had an impact on various aspects of our lives, yet most people believe they cannot hope to understand or enjoy the subject.
About: In this computerized world, mathematics has had an impact on various aspects of our lives, yet most people believe they cannot hope to understand or enjoy the subject.
Reprint edition from Penguin USA (September 1, 1990)
9780140135510 | details & prices | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $12.00
About: This lively and comprehensive new survey sets out to show just how mistaken people who think they can't enjoy mathematics really are.
About: This lively and comprehensive new survey sets out to show just how mistaken people who think they can't enjoy mathematics really are.