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The Art of the Infinite: Our Lost Language of Numbers
The Art of the Infinite Our Lost Language of Numbers Author:Robert Kaplan, Ellen Kaplan 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... more » the topic. The authors draw on science, literature, history, biography and philosophy, clarifying the knowledge that patterns of mathematics are everywhere.« less