Is God a mathematician? / Mario Livio.
This fascinating exploration of the great discoveries of history's most important mathematicians seeks an answer to the eternal question: Does mathematics hold the key to understanding the mysteries of the physical world?
Record details
- ISBN: 0743294068
- ISBN: 9780743294065
- Physical Description: x, 308 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster trade paperback ed.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, [2010], c2009
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-291) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | A mystery -- Mystics : the numerologist and the philsopher -- Magicians : the master and the heretic -- Magicians : the skeptic and the giant -- Statisticians and probabilists : the science of uncertainty -- Geometers : future shock -- Logicians : thinking about reasoning -- Unreasonable effectiveness? -- On the human mind, mathematics, and the universe. |
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Subject: | Mathematics > Philosophy. Logic, Symbolic and mathematical. Mathematicians > Psychology. Discoveries in science. |
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Kirtland Community College Library | QA 8.4 .L586 2010 | 30775305448814 | General Collection | Available | - |
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245 | 0 | 0. | ‡aIs God a mathematician? / ‡cMario Livio. |
250 | . | ‡a1st Simon & Schuster trade paperback ed. | |
260 | . | ‡aNew York : ‡bSimon & Schuster, ‡c[2010], c2009 | |
300 | . | ‡ax, 308 p. : ‡bill. ; ‡c22 cm. | |
504 | . | ‡aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [273]-291) and index. | |
505 | 0 | . | ‡aA mystery -- Mystics : the numerologist and the philsopher -- Magicians : the master and the heretic -- Magicians : the skeptic and the giant -- Statisticians and probabilists : the science of uncertainty -- Geometers : future shock -- Logicians : thinking about reasoning -- Unreasonable effectiveness? -- On the human mind, mathematics, and the universe. |
520 | . | ‡aThis fascinating exploration of the great discoveries of history's most important mathematicians seeks an answer to the eternal question: Does mathematics hold the key to understanding the mysteries of the physical world? | |
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650 | 0. | ‡aMathematicians ‡xPsychology. | |
650 | 0. | ‡aDiscoveries in science. | |
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