Title : Invitation to Mathematics. Bridges to Infinity - Michael Guillen - book
Summary :
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"Inviting" one to discover mathematics will seem paradoxical to all those who see equations as refined torture tools. These people, upon reading the first text, will understand that mathematics is much more than a monster with implacable logic and that it can, like any human activity, be told in a pleasant way. From differential calculus to imaginary numbers, from Evariste Galois to Kurt Gödel, Michael Guillen offers an initiatory journey in 17 stages to rediscover what ordinary teaching is so good at hiding: the mathematical adventure, with its flashes of brilliance and stagnation, reads like a novel.
There are no shortage of heroes, mysteries, or twists and turns. We experience the emergence of non-Euclidean geometries or the questioning of the foundations of logic as a drama, and we participate in the construction of these extraordinary mathematical edifices that are game theory or catastrophe theory. A book that gives mathematics what it most cruelly lacks: the human dimension.
- EAN: 9782020226745
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