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100 1 _aLivio, Mario,
_d1945-
245 1 0 _aIs God a mathematician? /
_cMario Livio.
250 _a1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bSimon & Schuster,
_c2009.
300 _ax, 308 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c25 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 273-291) and index.
520 _aThis 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?
505 0 _aA 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.
650 0 _aMathematics
_xPhilosophy.
650 0 _aLogic, Symbolic and mathematical.
650 0 _aMathematicians
_xPsychology.
650 0 _aDiscoveries in science.
650 7 _aDiscoveries in science.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst00894959
650 7 _aLogic, Symbolic and mathematical.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01002068
650 7 _aMathematicians
_xPsychology.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01012160
650 7 _aMathematics
_xPhilosophy.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01012213
650 7 _aMatematik.
_2sao
650 7 _aMatematikens filosofi.
_2sao
856 4 1 _3Sample text
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856 4 1 _3Table of contents
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856 4 2 _3Contributor biographical information
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856 4 2 _3Publisher description
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