Descartes' Dream: The World According to Mathematics by Philip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh

Descartes' Dream: The World According to Mathematics

Philip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh

321 pages first pub 1986 (editions)

nonfiction mathematics philosophy science challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Philosopher René Descartes visualized a world unified by mathematics, in which all intellectual issues could be resolved rationally by local computation. This series of provocative essays takes a modern look at the seventeenth-century thinker’s dr...

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