Description: Math Without Numbers, Paperback by Beckman, Milo; Erazo, M. (ILT), ISBN 1524745561, ISBN-13 9781524745561, Brand New, Free shipping in the US An illustrated tour of the structures and patterns we call "math"
The only numbers in this book are the page numbers.
Math Without Numbers is a vivid, conversational, and wholly original guide to the three main branches of abstract math—topology, analysis, and algebra—which turn out to be surprisingly easy to grasp. This book upends the conventional approach to math, inviting you to think creatively about shape and dimension, the infinite and infinitesimal, symmetries, proofs, and how these concepts all fit together. What awaits readers is a freewheeling tour of the inimitable joys and unsolved mysteries of this curiously powerful subject.
Like the classic math allegory Flatland, first published over a century ago, or Douglas Hofstadters Godel, Escher, Bach forty years ago, there has never been a math book quite like Math Without Numbers. So many popularizations of math have dwelt on numbers like pi or zero or infinity. This book goes well beyond to questions such as: How many shapes are there? Is anything bigger than infinity? And is math even true? Milo Beckman shows why math is mostly just pattern recognition and how it keeps on surprising us with unexpected, useful connections to the real world.
The ambitions of this book take a special kind of author. An inventive, original thinker pursuing his calling with jubilant passion. A prodigy. Milo Beckman completed the graduate-level course sequence in mathematics at age sixteen, when he was a sophomore at Harvard; while writing this book, he was studying the philosophical foundations of physics at Columbia under Brian Greene, among others.
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Book Title: Math Without Numbers
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Name: Math Without Numbers
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Item Height: 0.5 in
Publication Year: 2022
Subject: Algebra / Abstract, Essays, Mathematical Analysis
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 7.2 Oz
Author: Milo Beckman
Subject Area: Mathematics
Item Length: 8.2 in
Item Width: 5.4 in
Format: Trade Paperback
