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PI in the Sky
Counting, Thinking, and Being
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In answering these questions, Barrow provides a bridge between the usually irreconcilable worlds of mathematics and theology. Along the way, he treats us to a history of counting all over the world, from Egyptian hieroglyphics to logical friction, from number mysticism to Marxist mathematics. And he introduces us to a host of peculiar individuals who have thought some of the deepest and strangest thoughts that human minds have ever thought, from Lao-Tse to Robert Pirsig, Charles Darwin, and Umberto Eco. Barrow thus provides the historical framework and the intellectual tools necessary to an understanding of some of today’s weightiest mathematical concepts.
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- Oct 20, 1993
- Page Count
- 336 pages
- Publisher
- Back Bay Books
- ISBN-13
- 9780316082594
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