Is God a mathematician? /
Mario Livio.
- 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.
- x, 308 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-291) and index.
A mystery -- Mystics : the numerologist and the philsopher -- Magicians : the master and the heretic -- Magicians : the skeptic and the giant -- Statisticians and probabilists : the science of uncertainty -- Geometers : future shock -- Logicians : thinking about reasoning -- Unreasonable effectiveness? -- On the human mind, mathematics, and the universe.
This fascinating exploration of the great discoveries of history's most important mathematicians seeks an answer to the eternal question: Does mathematics hold the key to understanding the mysteries of the physical world?
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Mathematics--Philosophy. Logic, Symbolic and mathematical. Mathematicians--Psychology. Discoveries in science. Discoveries in science. Logic, Symbolic and mathematical. Mathematicians--Psychology. Mathematics--Philosophy. Matematik. Matematikens filosofi.