Is God a Mathematician?
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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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PUBLISHED
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.
Year Published: 2009
Description: x, 308 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780743294058
074329405X
SUBJECTS
Mathematics -- Philosophy.
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.
Mathematicians -- Psychology.
Discoveries in science.