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God Created The Integers - Stephen Hawking
God Created The Integers
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"God Created The Integers" is Stephen Hawking's personal choice of the greatest mathematical works in history. He allows the reader to peer into the mind of genius by providing us with excerpts from original mathematical proofs and results. He also helps us understand the progression of... show more
"God Created The Integers" is Stephen Hawking's personal choice of the greatest mathematical works in history. He allows the reader to peer into the mind of genius by providing us with excerpts from original mathematical proofs and results. He also helps us understand the progression of mathematical thought, and the very foundations of our present day technologies. The book includes landmark discoveries spanning 2500 years and representing the work of mathematicians such as Euclid, Georg Cantor, Kurt Godel, Augustin Cauchy, Bernard Riemann and Alan Turing. Each chapter begins with a biography of the featured mathematician, clearly explaining the significance of the result, followed by the full proof of the work, reproduced from the original publication, many in new translations.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780141018782 (014101878X)
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
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4.0 E = hv: "God Created the Integers - The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History" by Stephen Hawking
(Original Review, 2005)Random thoughts while attempting to read the book (the edition is shitty: it's full of typos)In EM theory, which is Lorentz invariant, there's a relation between the magnitudes of the E and B fields for light (not if you use Planck units. The magnitudes of c and h tell you not...
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5.0 God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs that Changed History
Anyone interested in the history and evolution of math and science should pick up this monster tome. It's not a book you're likely to read front-to-back in order, nor necessarily even be able to follow all of the copious amount of equations presented without a very solid math background. However, Ha...
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