Kaplan, Robert
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2000
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Summary: The Art of the Infinite takes infinity, in its countless guises, as a touchstone for understanding mathematical thinking. Tracing a path from Pythagoras, whose great Theorem led inexorably to a discovery that his followers tried in vain to keep secret (the existence of irrational numbers); through Descartes and Leibniz; to the brilliant, haunted Georg Cantor, who proved the infinity can come in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2003
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