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The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men Paolo Zellini
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The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men
Paolo Zellini
A masterful cultural history of mathematics from bestselling Italian mathematician and philosopher Paolo Zellini.
Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? Have we invented numbers or do they truly exist? What sort of reality should we attribute to them? Mathematics has always been a way of understanding and ordering the world: from sacred ancient texts and pre-Socratic philosophers to twentieth-century logicians such as Russell and Frege and beyond. In this masterful, elegant book, mathematician and philosopher Paolo Zellini offers a brief cultural and intellectual history of mathematics, from ancient Greece to India to our contemporary obsession with algorithms, showing how mathematical thinking is inextricably linked with philosophical, existential and religious questions--and indeed with our cosmic understanding of the world.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | May 5, 2020 |
| ISBN13 | 9781643134147 |
| Publishers | Pegasus Books |
| Pages | 240 |
| Dimensions | 145 × 213 × 25 mm · 317 g |
| Language | English |
