Mathematics: The Science of Patterns - The Search for Order in Life, Mind and the Universe ("Scientific American" Library)

Keith J. Devlin

ISBN 10: 0716760223 / ISBN 13: 9780716760221

Verlag: Scientific American Library, 1997

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Mathematics: The Science of Patterns - The Search for Order in Life, Mind and the Universe ("Scientific American" Library)
• Verlag: Scientific American Library
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0716760223
• ISBN-13: 9780716760221
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: Used; Very Good

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"An attractive and wonderful book about an attractive, wonderful, and woefully misunderstood subject. If you think that mathematics is only about numbers and is only useful for making out your income tax, Keith Devlin's book will open your eyes to a new world - Mathematics, the Science of Patterns." Ian Stewart, author of Another Fine Math You've Got Me Into ...

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Keith Devlin is Dean of the School of Science at Saint Mary's College of California and Senior Researcher at Stanford University's Center for the Study of Language and Information. A key participant in the six-part PBS television series "Life by the Numbers," he is the author of "Life by the Numbers; Goodbye, Descartes; Logic and Information"; "Mathematics: The New Golden Age"; and "InfoSense: Turning Information into Knowledge."