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The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men - A Cultural History by Paolo Zellini
Category: Science
Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? Do numbers truly exist? What sort of reality do formulas describe? The complexity of mathematics - its abstract rules and obscure symbols - can seem very distant from the everyday. There are those things that are real and present, it is supposed, and then ther ...Show more
The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men: A Cultural History by Paolo Zellini
Category: Science
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 ...Show more
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