Yearning for the Impossible

Yearning for the Impossible
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Publisher : CRC Press
Total Pages : 249
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ISBN-10 : 9781439865774
ISBN-13 : 1439865779
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Book Synopsis Yearning for the Impossible by : John Stillwell

Download or read book Yearning for the Impossible written by John Stillwell and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2006-05-23 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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: - Irrational and Imaginary Numbers - The Fourth Dimension - Curved Space - Infinity and others The author puts t


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