Título: Fearless Symmetry. Exposing The Hidden Patterns Of Numbers (New Edition) | ||
Autor: Ash Avner/ Gross Robert | Precio: $504.00 | |
Editorial: Princeton University Press | Año: 2008 | |
Tema: Matematicas, Ciencia, Estudio | Edición: 1ª | |
Sinopsis | ISBN: 9780691138718 | |
All too often, abstract mathematics, one of the most beautiful of human intellectual creations, is ground into the dry dust of drills and proofs. Useful, yes; exciting, no. Avner Ash and Robert Gross have done something different--by focusing on the ideas that modern mathematicians actually care about. Fearless Symmetry is a book about detecting hidden patterns, about finding definitions that clarify, about the study of numbers that has entranced some of our great thinkers for thousands of years. It is a book that takes on number theory in a way that a nonmathematician can follow-systematically but without a barrage of technicalities. Ash and Gross are two terrific guides who take the reader, scientist or layman, on a wonderful hike through concepts that matter, culminating in the extraordinary peaks that surround the irresistible, beckoning claim of Fermat's Last Theorem. |