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19 produkter
19 produkter
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
219 kr
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E-bok
Engelska93 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2019
310 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2009
225 kr
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From a bestselling author, an "incendiary and uproarious" assault on the pretensions of scientific atheists (National Review)Militant atheism is on the rise. Prominent thinkers including Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens have published best-selling books denigrating religious belief. And these authors are merely the leading edge of a larger movement that includes much of the scientific community. In response, mathematician David Berlinski, himself a secular Jew, delivers a biting defense of religious thought. The Devil's Delusion is a brilliant, incisive, and funny book that explores the limits of science and the pretensions of those who insist it is the ultimate touchstone for understanding our world.
Häftad, Engelska, 2001
287 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 1988
206 kr
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E-bok
Engelska, 2011207 kr
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From the acclaimed author of A Tour of the Calculus and The Advent of the Algorithm, here is a riveting look at mathematics that reveals a hidden world in some of its most fundamental concepts. In his latest foray into mathematics, David Berlinski takes on the simplest questions that can be asked: What is a number? How do addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division actually work? What are geometry and logic? As he delves into these subjects, he discovers and lucidly describes the beauty and complexity behind their seemingly simple exteriors, making clear how and why these mercurial, often slippery concepts are essential to who we are. Filled with illuminating historical anecdotes and asides on some of the most fascinating mathematicians through the ages, One, Two, Three is a captivating exploration of the foundation of mathematics: how it originated, who thought of it, and why it matters.
From the Hardcover edition.
E-bok
Engelska, 2011162 kr
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In Infinite Ascent, David Berlinski, the acclaimed author of The Advent of the Algorithm, A Tour of the Calculus, and Newton’s Gift, tells the story of mathematics, bringing to life with wit, elegance, and deep insight a 2,500-year-long intellectual adventure.Berlinski focuses on the ten most important breakthroughs in mathematical history–and the men behind them. Here are Pythagoras, intoxicated by the mystical significance of numbers; Euclid, who gave the world the very idea of a proof; Leibniz and Newton, co-discoverers of the calculus; Cantor, master of the infinite; and Gödel, who in one magnificent proof placed everything in doubt. The elaboration of mathematical knowledge has meant nothing less than the unfolding of human consciousness itself. With his unmatched ability to make abstract ideas concrete and approachable, Berlinski both tells an engrossing tale and introduces us to the full power of what surely ranks as one of the greatest of all human endeavors.From the Hardcover edition.
E-bok
Engelska, 2011132 kr
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Were it not for the calculus, mathematicians would have no way to describe the acceleration of a motorcycle or the effect of gravity on thrown balls and distant planets, or to prove that a man could cross a room and eventually touch the opposite wall. Just how calculus makes these things possible and in doing so finds a correspondence between real numbers and the real world is the subject of this dazzling book by a writer of extraordinary clarity and stylistic brio. Even as he initiates us into the mysteries of real numbers, functions, and limits, Berlinski explores the furthest implications of his subject, revealing how the calculus reconciles the precision of numbers with the fluidity of the changing universe. "An odd and tantalizing book by a writer who takes immense pleasure in this great mathematical tool, and tries to create it in others."--New York Times Book ReviewFrom the Trade Paperback edition.
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
271 kr
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For more than two thousand years, geometry has been equated with Euclid's Elements , the world's first mathematical treatise. The system of shapes and space it describes is at once so powerful and so natural that it has intrigued men and women for centuries, and continues to be taught in classrooms around the world. In The King of Infinite Space , David Berlinski pays homage to Euclid and the vision that he created, showing how Euclid has achieved a hold on our imagination for reasons that go beyond the details of his proofs. Euclid provided mathematicians with a way of life, a technique of proceeding from what must be assumed to what can be demonstrated. The circumstances under which Euclid composed the Elements remain largely unknown, and the details of his life have long since vanished. But through his masterpiece, Euclid,and the mathematical tradition he established,have achieved immortality. Written with Berlinski's characteristic lyricism and verve, The King of Infinite Space offers a rich, accessible treatment of Euclid and his Elements.
E-bok
Engelska, 201237 kr
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When San Francisco private eye Aaron Asherfeld is hired to track down a missing businessman, his investigation takes on a kinky dimension as he meets a host of characters from the city’s sleazy underside.
E-bok
Engelska, 201237 kr
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Investigating the death of a philosophy professor at a fashionable northern California university, Aaron Asherfeld interrogates the radical racial, sexual, and intellectual factions at the college, each of which harbors a secret about the dead man.
E-bok
Engelska, 201237 kr
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Hired by the accounting firm of Plumbeck and Ergenweiler to investigate the disappearance of the partner’s shared mistress, San Francisco investigator Aaron Asherfeld finds himself embroiled in a sexual harassment suit and a drug dealer’s pursuits.
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
269 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2009
252 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2009
318 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2023
293 kr
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E-bok
Engelska104 kr
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E-bok
Franska, 2014150 kr
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Tout ce que vous avez toujours voulu savoir sur les plus grands mathematiciens de l'HistoireDescartes, Euclide, Leibniz, Newton... Cinq ans apres l'incroyable succes de La Vie revee des Maths, David Berlinski, le celebre mathematicien philosophe, revient avec un nouveau volume tout aussi captivant.Au fil d'anecdotes historiques, il passe en revue la vie et l' uvre des plus grands mathematiciens. Son style accessible et amuse plonge le lecteur dans l'aventure envoutante et inattendue des mathematiques.Sous sa plume, theoremes, axiomes, fonctions et demonstrations n'ont plus de secrets. Berlinski reussit avec cet ouvrage l'equation impossible entre les chiffres et les lettres.David Berlinski invite le lecteur a decouvrir les theories mathematiques au fil des siecles.CE QU'EN PENSE LA CRITIQUE- "e;De la litterature scientifique atteignant la perfection. Il n'est pas simplement facile a lire ; parce qu'il est extremement intelligent, ce livre peut aussi inspirer des professionnels."e; (N. N. Taleb, Professeur a l'Universite du Massachusetts)- "e;Une histoire des maths amusante et pleine de grace, incroyablement facile a lire"e; (G. Chaitin, Chercheur au Centre IBM Thomas J. Watson) A PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR Philosophe et mathematicien, David Berlinski est ne a New York en 1942. Il a ete professeur a Columbia, Stanford et Rutgers. Il vit aujourd'hui a Paris ou il se consacre exclusivement a l'ecriture. Il est l'auteur de nombreux romans et essais parmi lesquels figurent le Don de Newton et la Vie d'Albert Einstein (Simon & Schuster, 2001) et Une petite histoire des mathematiques (Random House, 2001).EXTRAITL'histoire des mathematiques commence en 532 av. J.-C., annee de naissance du mathematicien grec Pythagore. Fuyant son ile natale de Samos pour echapper au tyran Polycrate, Pythagore voyagea en Egypte ou, comme tant de jeunes Grecs impressionnables, il apprit des Egyptiens le nombre et la mesure [et] fut stupefait de la sagesse des pretres... Par la suite, il s'installa dans le Sud de l'Italie, se mit a enseigner et attira rapidement des disciples. On dispose de tres peu d'informations directes sur sa vie, si ce n'est que ses contemporains le tenaient pour admirable. Aucun de ses ecrits n'a ete retrouve ; mais il a echappe a l'oubli, preserve par l'ambre de divers temoignages litteraires. L'admission dans la secte pythagoricienne reposait naturellement sur les competences mathematiques. L'observation du secret etait de mise, et les feves, bannies du regime alimentaire. Les nouveaux membres devaient garder le silence pendant plusieurs annees, politique qu'aujourd'hui encore de nombreux enseignants trouveront exemplaire, et etaient censes mettre ce laps de temps a profit pour mediter et reflechir.