The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men: A Cultural History

by Paolo Zellini

Book Overview

A masterful cultural history of mathematics from bestselling Italian mathematician and philosopher Paolo Zellini.

Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? Have we invented numbers or do they truly exist? What sort of reality should we attribute to them? Mathematics has always been a way of understanding and ordering the world: from sacred ancient texts and pre-Socratic philosophers to twentieth-century logicians such as Russell and Frege...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1643134140
• ISBN13: 9781643134147
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.4"