A Certain Ambiguity: A Mathematical Novel
de Gaurav Suri; Hartosh Singh Bal
- Nuevo
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- New
- ISBN 10
- 0691127093
- ISBN 13
- 9780691127095
- Librería
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Kraków, Poland
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Sobre este artículo
Princeton University Press, 2007 8vo (24 cm), X, 281 pp. Publisher's cloth-backed boards and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear). "While taking a class on infinity at Stanford in the late 1980s, Ravi Kapoor discovers that he is confronting the same mathematical and philosophical dilemmas that his mathematician grandfather had faced many decades earlier--and that had landed him in jail. Charged under an obscure blasphemy law in a small New Jersey town in 1919, Vijay Sahni is challenged by a skeptical judge to defend his belief that the certainty of mathematics can be extended to all human knowledge. Together, the two men discover the power--and the fallibility--of what has long been considered the pinnacle of human certainty, Euclidean geometry. As grandfather and grandson struggle with the question of whether there can ever be absolute certainty in mathematics or life, they are forced to reconsider their fundamental beliefs and choices. Their stories hinge on their explorations of parallel developments in the study of geometry and infinity--and the mathematics throughout is as rigorous and fascinating as the narrative and characters are compelling and complex. Moving and enlightening, A Certain Ambiguity is a story about what it means to face the extent--and the limits--of human knowledge." (from the blurb)
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- Librería
- Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko (PL)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 008276
- Título
- A Certain Ambiguity: A Mathematical Novel
- Autor
- Gaurav Suri; Hartosh Singh Bal
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo New
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0691127093
- ISBN 13
- 9780691127095
- Editorial
- Princeton University Press
- Lugar de publicación
- Princeton, Nj
- Fecha de publicación
- 2007
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Literature;
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Sobre el vendedor
Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
Miembro de Biblio desde 2019
Kraków
Sobre Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
Specializing in mathematical sciences, Church Slavonic and Slavic books, Eastern European history, travels and topography, bibliography, history and art of the book, history of libraries and collections
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