Mathematics: The Science of Patterns : The Search for Order in Life, Mind, and the Universe (Scientific American Library)
Mathematics is more usefully understood as the study of patterns - real or imagined, visual or mental, arising from the natural world or from within the human mind. With a minimum of formulae and no elaborate formal proofs, Devlin presents mathematics as a unique human endeavour that helps us to...
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Mathematics is more usefully understood as the study of patterns - real or imagined, visual or mental, arising from the natural world or from within the human mind. With a minimum of formulae and no elaborate formal proofs, Devlin presents mathematics as a unique human endeavour that helps us to understand the universe and ourselves.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780716750475 (0716750473)
ASIN: 0716750473
Publish date: 1994-10
Publisher: W H Freeman & Co (Sd)
Pages no: 216
Edition language: English
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