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Eight Etudes on Infinity: A Mathematical Adventure

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Eight Etudes on Infinity: A Mathematical Adventure
9.99 €
Mathematical formulas are as miraculous as the brilliant works of great composers and writers, claims the author of several bestselling books, mathematician and philosopher Haim Shapira. To anyone who wishes to broaden his horizons, he offers to get acquainted with mathematical theories concerning the most beautiful concept ever created by mankind - the concept of infinity. This concept has excited many prominent thinkers, including Zeno and Pythagoras, Georg Cantor and Bertrand Russell, Sophia Kovalevskaya and Emmy Neuter, Al-Khwarizmi and Euclid, Sophie Germain and Srinivasa Ramanujan. Since the world of infinity is full of paradoxes, there are quite a few in this book: the aporias of Zeno, Hilbert's Infinity Hotel, the paradox of Achilles and the gods, the paradox of Heaven and Hell, the Ross-Littlewood paradox about tennis balls, Galileo's paradox, and many others.
"I will tell the lay reader simply and clearly about the two mathematical theories I find most fascinating, number theory and set theory, and each has to do with infinity. Along with these, I will offer strategies for mathematical thinking that allow the reader to test his or her ability to solve truly fascinating mathematical problems." (Chaim Shapira)
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