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ISBN
9781472139771
Genre
Algemeen
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02-02-2017
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Taal
Engels
Uitgever
Little, Brown Book Group
Auteur(s)
Brian Clegg
Are Numbers Real?
The Uncanny Relationships Between Maths and the Physical World
Brian Clegg
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Have
you
ever
wondered
what
humans
did
before
numbers
existed?
How
they
organized
their
lives,
traded
goods,
or
kept
track
of
their
treasures?
What
would
your
life
be
like
without
them?Numbers
began
as
simple
representations
of
everyday
things,
but
mathematics
rapidly
took
on
a
life
of
its
own,
occupying
a
parallel
virtual
world.
In
Are
Numbers
Real?
Brian
Clegg
explores
the
way
that
maths
has
become
more
and
more
detached
from
reality,
yet
despite
this
is
driving
the
development
of
modern
physics.From
devising
a
new
counting
system
based
on
goats,
through
the
weird
and
wonderful
mathematics
of
imaginary
numbers
and
infinity
to
the
debate
over
whether
mathematics
has
too
much
influence
on
the
direction
of
science,
this
fascinating
and
accessible
book
opens
the
reader's
eyes
to
the
hidden
reality
of
the
strange
yet
familiar
world
of numbers.
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