Introducing Infinity: A Graphic Guide

Introducing Infinity: A Graphic Guide

Brian Clegg
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Author:  Brian Clegg
Condition:  New
Format:  Paperback
Pages:  176
Publisher:  Icon Books Ltd
Year:  2012
ISBN:  9781848314061

Infinity is a profoundly counter-intuitive and brain-twisting subject that has inspired some great thinkers - and provoked and shocked others. The ancient Greeks were so horrified by the implications of an endless number that they drowned the man who gave away the secret. And a German mathematician was driven mad by the repercussions of his discovery of transfinite numbers.
Brian Clegg and Oliver Pugh's brilliant graphic tour of infinity features a cast of characters ranging from Archimedes and Pythagoras to al-Khwarizmi, Fibonacci, Galileo, Newton, Leibniz, Cantor, Venn, Goedel and Mandelbrot, and shows how infinity has challenged the finest minds of science and mathematics. Prepare to enter a world of paradox.
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