Mathematics, Culture, and the Arts – serie
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Africa and Mathematics
From Colonial Findings Back to the Ishango Rods
Inbunden, 2019
671 kr
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This volume on ethnomathematics in Central Africa fills a gap in the current literature, focusing on a region rarely explored by other publications. It highlights the discovery of the Ishango rod, which was found to be the oldest mathematical tool in humanity's history, thereby shifting the origin …
Simplicity: Ideals of Practice in Mathematics and the Arts
Av Roman Kossak, Philip Ording
Inbunden, 2017
416 kr
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To find "criteria of simplicity" was the goal of David Hilbert's recently discovered twenty-fourth problem on his renowned list of open problems given at the 1900 International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris. At the same time, simplicity and economy of means are powerful impulses in the …
Simplicity: Ideals of Practice in Mathematics and the Arts
Av Roman Kossak, Philip Ording
Häftad, 2018
416 kr
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To find "criteria of simplicity" was the goal of David Hilbert's recently discovered twenty-fourth problem on his renowned list of open problems given at the 1900 International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris. At the same time, simplicity and economy of means are powerful impulses in the …
Great Circles
The Transits of Mathematics and Poetry
Inbunden, 2018
503 kr
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This volume explores the interaction of poetry and mathematics by looking at analogies that link them. The form that distinguishes poetry from prose has mathematical structure (lifting language above the flow of time), as do the thoughtful ways in which poets bring the infinite into relation with …
