
Introducing Infinity: A Graphic Guide - Graphic Guides (Paperback)
Brian Clegg (author), Oliver Pugh (illustrator)Published: 06/09/2012
Infinity is a profoundly counter-intuitive and brain-twisting subject that has inspired some great thinkers - and provoked and shocked others.
The ancient Greeks were so horrified by the implications of an endless number that they drowned the man who gave away the secret. And a German mathematician was driven mad by the repercussions of his discovery of transfinite numbers.
Brian Clegg and Oliver Pugh's brilliant graphic tour of infinity features a cast of characters ranging from Archimedes and Pythagoras to al-Khwarizmi, Fibonacci, Galileo, Newton, Leibniz, Cantor, Venn, Goedel and Mandelbrot, and shows how infinity has challenged the finest minds of science and mathematics. Prepare to enter a world of paradox.
Publisher: Icon Books
ISBN: 9781848314061
Number of pages: 176
Weight: 125 g
Dimensions: 166 x 120 x 13 mm
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