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Art of the Infinite The Pleasures of Mathematics

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ISBN-10: 019514743X

ISBN-13: 9780195147438

Edition: 2003

Authors: Robert Kaplan, Ellen Kaplan

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Robert Kaplan's The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero was an international best-seller, translated into eight languages. The Times called it "elegant, discursive, and littered with quotes and allusions from Aquinas via Gershwin to Woolf" and The Philadelphia Inquirer praised it as "absolutely scintillating." In this delightful new book, Robert Kaplan, writing together with his wife Ellen Kaplan, once again takes us on a witty, literate, and accessible tour of the world of mathematics. Where The Nothing That Is looked at math through the lens of zero, The Art of the Infinite takes infinity, in its countless guises, as a touchstone for understanding mathematical thinking. Tracing a…    
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List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/3/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 9.56" wide x 6.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Robert Kaplan has taught mathematics to people from six to sixty, at leading independent schools and most recently at Harvard University. He is the author of the best-selling The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero, which has been translated into 10 languages, and, with his wife, Ellen, the co-author of The Art of the Infinite.

Ellen Kaplan has taught mathematics to people from six to sixty, at leading independent schools and most recently at Harvard University. With her husband, Robert, she wrote The Art of the Infinite. Ellen is also co-author of Chances Are: Adventures in Probability and Bozo Sapiens: Why to Err is Human, co-written with her son, Michael Kaplan.

Acknowledgments
An Invitation
Time and the Mind
How Do We Hold These Truths?
Designs on a Locked Chest
Interlude: The Infinite and the Indefinite
Skipping Stones
Euclid Alone
Interlude: Longing and the Infinite
The Eagle of Algebra
Into the Highlands
Interlude: The Infinite and the Unknown
Back of Beyond
The Abyss
Appendix
Bibliography
Index