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Circles Disturbed : The Interplay of Mathematics and Narrative /
Circles Disturbed brings together important thinkers in mathematics, history, and philosophy to explore the relationship between mathematics and narrative. The book's title recalls the last words of the great Greek mathematician Archimedes before he was slain by a Roman soldier--"Don'...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Circles Disturbed : |b The Interplay of Mathematics and Narrative / |c edited by Apostolos Doxiadis and Barry Mazur. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1 From Voyagers to Martyrs: Toward a Storied History of Mathematics; 2 Structure of Crystal, Bucket of Dust; 3 Deductive Narrative and the Epistemological Function of Belief in Mathematics: On Bombelli and Imaginary Numbers; 4 Hilbert on Theology and Its Discontents: The Origin Myth of Modern Mathematics; 5 Do Androids Prove Theorems in Their Sleep?; 6 Visions, Dreams, and Mathematics; 7 Vividness in Mathematics and Narrative; 8 Mathematics and Narrative: Why Are Stories and Proofs Interesting? | |
| 520 | |a Circles Disturbed brings together important thinkers in mathematics, history, and philosophy to explore the relationship between mathematics and narrative. The book's title recalls the last words of the great Greek mathematician Archimedes before he was slain by a Roman soldier--"Don't disturb my circles"--Words that seem to refer to two radically different concerns: that of the practical person living in the concrete world of reality, and that of the theoretician lost in a world of abstraction. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
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| 650 | 7 | |a Communication in mathematics. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01742056 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a MATHEMATICS |x History & Philosophy. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Mathematiques |x Histoire. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Communication en mathematiques. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Mathematiques |x Langage. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Mathematics |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Communication in mathematics. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Mathematics |x Language. | |
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| 700 | 1 | |a Mazur, Barry, |e editor. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Doxiadēs, Apostolos K., |d 1953- |e editor. | |
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