Дополнительная Информация

Издание

First edition.

Описание

204 pages ; 22 cm

Библиография

Bibliography: pages 191-192.

Содержание

Fantasizing -- Certain treasure -- Logic and proof -- Locating the vanishing point -- Limit and calculus -- Irrational thinking -- Continuity and numbers -- Beyond infinity -- Cantorian set theory and transfinite numbers -- Singular ideas -- Natural infinities -- Inventing reality -- Applying abstract mathematics -- Abstract symmetry -- Group theory -- Realm of manifold possibilities -- Dimension -- Zero and the null set -- Compromising -- Non-Euclidean geometries -- Article of faith -- Godel's theorem -- Optimizing -- Cloudy crystal ball -- Probablity theory and statistics -- Between checkers and chess -- Two-person game theory -- Three-person game theory -- Topology -- Familiar faces of change -- Catastrophe theory -- Combinatorics.

Примечание

Includes index.

Тема

Mathematics -- Popular works.

ISBN

0874772338

0874773458 (paperback)