Yearning for the Impossible: The Surprising Truths of Mathematics by John Stillwell

Yearning for the Impossible: The Surprising Truths of Mathematics

John Stillwell

244 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction mathematics science challenging informative slow-paced
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This book explores the history of mathematics from the perspective of the creative tension between common sense and the "impossible" as the author follows the discovery or invention of new concepts that have marked mathematical progress: - Irratio...

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