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The language of mathematics : making the invisible visible / Keith Devlin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : W.H. Freeman, [1998]Copyright date: ©1998Description: viii, 344 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 071673379X
  • 9780716733799
  • 0716739674
  • 9780716739678
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 510 22
LOC classification:
  • QA93 .D4578 1998
Contents:
Why numbers count -- Patterns of the mind -- Mathematics in motion -- Mathematics gets into shape -- The mathematics of beauty -- What happens when mathematics gets into position -- How mathematicians figure the odds -- Uncovering the hidden patterns of the universe -- --
Preface -- Prologue: What is Mathematics? -- Ch. 1. Why Numbers Count -- Ch. 2. Patterns of the Mind -- Ch. 3. Mathematics in Motion -- Ch. 4. Mathematics Gets into Shape -- Ch. 5. The Mathematics of Beauty -- Ch. 6. What Happens When Mathematics Gets into Position -- Ch. 7. How Mathematicians Figure the Odds -- Ch. 8. Uncovering the Hidden Patterns of the Universe -- Postscript -- Index.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 510 DEV (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A219682B

Includes index.

Originally published: 1999.

Includes index.

Why numbers count -- Patterns of the mind -- Mathematics in motion -- Mathematics gets into shape -- The mathematics of beauty -- What happens when mathematics gets into position -- How mathematicians figure the odds -- Uncovering the hidden patterns of the universe -- --

Preface -- Prologue: What is Mathematics? -- Ch. 1. Why Numbers Count -- Ch. 2. Patterns of the Mind -- Ch. 3. Mathematics in Motion -- Ch. 4. Mathematics Gets into Shape -- Ch. 5. The Mathematics of Beauty -- Ch. 6. What Happens When Mathematics Gets into Position -- Ch. 7. How Mathematicians Figure the Odds -- Ch. 8. Uncovering the Hidden Patterns of the Universe -- Postscript -- Index.

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