arronkau
Written on Aug 1, 2015
The prose is flowery and full of allusions, which I like, but it could make some sections (already challenging due to the math in them) less accessible.
This accessible work aims to inspire the general reader with the wonder and beauty of mathematics - our first native language. To savour mathematics is to feel the same exhilaration that great music inspires - the wonder that something invented by humans is also timeless. The text starts from the basics, moving systematically to the frontiers of the topic. The authors draw on science, literature, history, biography and philosophy, clarifying the knowledge that patterns of mathematics are everywhere.
- ISBN10 0195176065
- ISBN13 9780195176063
- Publish Date 18 November 2004 (first published 1 January 2003)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 7 August 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Oxford University Press, USA
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 336
- Language English
Reviews
The prose is flowery and full of allusions, which I like, but it could make some sections (already challenging due to the math in them) less accessible.