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"There used to be certain words you couldn't say in front of a girl. Now, you can say them, but you can't say 'girl.'"
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| | A Mathematical Mystery Tour:
Discovering the Truth and Beauty of the Cosmos
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| | by A. K. Dewdney
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ZIN Product Number: 10128784
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
ISBN: 0471407348
Release Date: Jan 3, 1996
| |  | | | In Brief
In this thought-provoking reading adventure, acclaimed author A.K. Dewdney takes us on a fictional journey around the world in search of the solution to one of the greatest ancient mysteries of mathematics. From the Temple of Apollo to the Arabian desert, and from the winding canals of Venice to the medieval halls of Oxford, Dewdney searches through highlights in the history of mathematics for an answer to the timeless question: Why is it that the cosmos - from the tiny world of atoms to the shape of the universe itself - is so miraculously governed by mathematical laws? Could it be that our world is in some sense made of mathematics, as Pythagoras famously proposed? Or is it we (or the mathematicians among us) who make mathematics? Are the remarkable theorems and equations that describe the world around us discovered, or are they created? Is mathematics the very fabric of the cosmos, or does it exist only in the human mind?
| | | | From The Publisher
In this thought-provoking reading adventure, acclaimed author A.K. Dewdney takes us on a fictional journey around the world in search of the solution to one of the greatest ancient mysteries of mathematics. From the Temple of Apollo to the Arabian desert, and from the winding canals of Venice to the medieval halls of Oxford, Dewdney searches through highlights in the history of mathematics for an answer to the timeless question: Why is it that the cosmos - from the tiny world of atoms to the shape of the universe itself - is so miraculously governed by mathematical laws? Could it be that our world is in some sense made of mathematics, as Pythagoras famously proposed? Or is it we (or the mathematicians among us) who make mathematics? Are the remarkable theorems and equations that describe the world around us discovered, or are they created? Is mathematics the very fabric of the cosmos, or does it exist only in the human mind?
| | | | Annotation
From the Temple of Apollo to the Arabian desert, and from the winding canals of Venice to the medieval halls of Oxford, Dewdney searches through highlights in the history of mathematics for an answer to the timeless question
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| | | |  | | | | Preface | | | Point of Departure | 1 | | Pt. I | The Holos | | | 1 | Death of a Dream | 11 | | 2 | The Birth of a Theorem | 33 | | Pt. II | The Superior World | | | 3 | Al Jabr | 59 | | 4 | The Spheres | 81 | | Pt. III | The Vanishing Act | | | 5 | The Message | 107 | | 6 | The Ultimate Reality | 129 | | Pt. IV | The Engines of Thought | | | 7 | Horping Zooks | 157 | | 8 | Mind Machines | 183 | | Epilogue: Cosmos and Holos | 203 | | Index | 214 |
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