Haim Shapira: Eight Lessons on Infinity
Eight Lessons on Infinity
Buch
- A Mathematical Adventure
- Watkins Media Limited, 03/2019
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781786781840
- Bestellnummer: 8837026
- Umfang: 208 Seiten
- Auflage: New ed
- Gewicht: 368 g
- Maße: 197 x 130 mm
- Stärke: 17 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 21.3.2019
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
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 humankind: 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 humankind: infinity.
Written in clear, simple language and aimed at a lay audience, this book also offers some strategies that will allow readers to try their ability at solving truly fascinating mathematical problems. Infinity is a deeply counter-intuitive concept that has inspired many great thinkers. In this book we will meet many sages, both familiar and unfamiliar: Zeno and Pythagoras, Georg Cantor and Bertrand Russell, Sofia Kovalevskaya and Emmy Noether, al-Khwarizmi and Euclid, Sophie Germain and Srinivasa Ramanujan. The world of infinity is inhabited by many paradoxes, and so is this book: Zeno paradoxes, Hilbert's "Infinity Hotel", Achilles and the gods paradox, the paradox of heaven and hell, the Ross-Littlewood paradox involving tennis balls, the Galileo paradox and many more.
Aimed at the curious but non-technical reader, this book refrains from using any fearsome mathematical symbols. It uses only the most basic operations of mathematics: adding, subtracting, multiplication, division, powers and roots - that is all. But that doesn't mean that a bit of deep thinking won't be necessary and rewarding. Writing with humour and lightness of touch, Haim Shapira banishes the chalky pallor of the schoolroom and offers instead a truly thrilling intellectual journey.
Fasten your seatbelt - we are going to Infinity, and beyond!