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Mathematics by Keith Devlin

Mathematics: The New Golden Age offers a glimpse of the extraordinary vistas and bizarre universes opened up by contemporary mathematicians: Hilbert's tenth problem and the four-color theorem, Gaussian integers, chaotic dynamics and the Mandelbrot set, infinite numbers, and strange number systems. Why a new golden age? According to Keith Devlin, we are currently witnessing an astronomical amount of mathematical research. Charting the most significant developments that have taken place in mathematics since 1960, Devlin expertly describes these advances for the interested layperson and adroitly summarizes their significance as he leads the reader into the heart of the most interesting mathematical perplexities--from the biggest known prime number to the Shimura-Taniyama conjecture for Fermat's Last Theorem.

Revised and updated to take into account dramatic developments of the 1980s and 1990s, Mathematics: The New Golden Age includes, in addition to Fermat's Last Theorem, major new sections on knots and topology, and the mathematics of the physical universe.

Devlin portrays mathematics not as a collection of procedures for solving problems, but as a unified part of human culture, as part of mankind's eternal quest to understand ourselves and the world in which we live. Though a genuine science, mathematics has strong artistic elements as well; this creativity is in evidence here as Devlin shows what mathematicians do--and reveals that it has little to do with numbers and arithmetic. This book brilliantly captures the fascinating new age of mathematics.

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Keith Devlin is the Dean of Saint Mary's College of California's School of Science and a Senior Researcher at Stanford University's Center for the Study of Language and Information. He is the author of Life by the Numbers, Farewell, Descartes, Logic and Information, Mathematics: The New Golden Age, and InfoSense: Converting Information into Knowledge. He was a crucial participant in the six-part PBS television series Life by the Numbers.

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ISBN 13 9780140227284
ISBN 10 0140227288
Title Mathematics
Author Keith Devlin
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Year published 1988-03-31
Number of pages 304
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.