Numbers: Computers, Philosophers, and the Search for Meaning (The History of Mathematics)

Tabak, John

ISBN 10: 0816079404 / ISBN 13: 9780816079407

Verlag: Facts on File, 2011

Beschreibung

HARDCOVER Very Good - Crisp, clean, unread book with some shelfwear/edgewear, may have a remainder mark - NICE Standard-sized.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers M0816079404Z2

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Numbers: Computers, Philosophers, and the Search for Meaning (The History of Mathematics)
• Verlag: Facts on File
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0816079404
• ISBN-13: 9780816079407
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Very Good

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Inhaltsangabe

Progress has often been slow when it comes to understanding numbers. Numbers provide a rich source of exotic ideas, philosophical and mathematical, but because many of us are so invested in the familiar, we have often resisted ideas about numbers that are new and unfamiliar.

Numbers, Revised Edition deals with numbers from the point of view of computation, beginning with the earliest number concepts from ancient Mesopotamian, Chinese, and Mayan mathematicians. It describes the origin and diffusion of Arabic numerals, and it concludes with a discussion of the way that the number system is represented within computers. A new section describes some of the IEEE standards for floating point arithmetic, and a more detailed discussion of the work of Gödel and Turing has been added to this edition. Irrational numbers and the idea of infinity are also examined in this in-depth guide.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John Tabak, Ph.D., performed graduate work at Suny at Stony Brook and received a degree in mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is the author of A Look at Earth and A Look at Neptune, two astronomy titles for middle school readers. He is presently writing a history of American sign language.