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Bridges to infinity: The human side of mathematics

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This book is an endlessly fascinating journey through a mathematician's looking glass.

Abstract: This book is an endlessly fascinating journey through a mathematician's looking glass

Author(s): Guillen, Michael
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Distributed by Houghton Mifflin, J.P. Tarcher
Year: 1983

Language: English
Pages: 204
City: Boston, Los Angeles
Tags: Mathematics -- Popular works.;Mathématiques -- Ouvrages de vulgarisation.;Mathematics.

Content: 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.