Hidden Harmonies: The Lives and Times of the Pythagorean Theorem

Kaplan, Ellen; Kaplan, Robert

ISBN 10: 1596915226 / ISBN 13: 9781596915220

Verlag: Bloomsbury Press, 2011

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1596915226-3-34624737

Inhaltsangabe:

The untold history of the most famous relation in mathematics and what it illustrates about the nature of human reasoning.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren: Ellen Kaplan has taught mathematics to people from six to sixty, at leading independent schools and most recently at Harvard University. With her husband, Robert, she wrote The Art of the Infinite. Ellen is also co-author of Chances Are: Adventures in Probability and Bozo Sapiens: Why to Err is Human, co-written with her son, Michael Kaplan.

Robert Kaplan has taught mathematics to people from six to sixty, at leading independent schools and most recently at Harvard University. He is the author of the best-selling The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero, which has been translated into 10 languages, and, with his wife, Ellen, the co-author of The Art of the Infinite.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Hidden Harmonies: The Lives and Times of the...
Verlag: Bloomsbury Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
Einband: hardcover
Zustand: Good