The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men: A Cultural History Tapa dura -

Pegasus Books, 2020. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Pegasus Books, 2020. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Pegasus Books. Used - Like New. 2020. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Small publisher's mark to text block. Otherwise, Fine. Dust jacket is Fine.

Pegasus Books. Used - Very Good. Very Good.

Pegasus Books, 2020. Hardcover. New/New. New hardcover in a new dust jacket. Pages are clean and free of marks or underlining. (5.5 x 1.2 x 8.25 inches) Includes author's notes, an index, and figures. 240 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. A masterful cultural history of mathematics from bestselling Italian mathematician and philosopher Paolo Zellini. Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? Have we invented numbers or do they truly exist? What sort of reality should we attribute to them? Mathematics has always been a way of understanding and ordering the world: from sacred ancient texts and pre-Socratic philosophers to twentieth-century logicians such as Russell and Frege and beyond. In this masterful, elegant book, mathematician and philosopher Paolo Zellini offers a brief cultural and intellectual history of mathematics, from ancient Greece to India to our contemporary obsession with algorithms, showing how mathematical thinking is inextricably linked with… Leer más

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.