Status
Available
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Publication
New York : Dover Publications, 1991.
Description
From one of the foremost interpreters for lay readers of the history and meaning of mathematics: a stimulating account of the origins of mathematical thought and the development of numerical theory. It probes the work of Pythagoras, Galileo, Berkeley, Einstein, and others, exploring how "number magic" has influenced religion, philosophy, science, and mathematics
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Physical description
viii, 418 p.; 22 cm
ISBN
0486267881 / 9780486267883