Is God a mathematician? /
This fascinating exploration of the great discoveries of history's most important mathematicians seeks an answer to the eternal question: Does mathematics hold the key to understanding the mysteries of the physical world?
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
2009.
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| Edition: | 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. |
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| Online Access: | Contributor biographical information Publisher description Sample text Table of contents only |
Table of Contents:
- A mystery
- Mystics : the numerologist and the philsopher
- Magicians : the master and the heretic
- Magicians : the skeptic and the giant
- Statisticians and probabilists : the science of uncertainty
- Geometers : future shock
- Logicians : thinking about reasoning
- Unreasonable effectiveness?
- On the human mind, mathematics, and the universe.