Numbers : computers, philosophers and the search for meaning / John Tabak
Material type: TextSeries: The history of mathematicsPublication details: Viva Books, New Delhi : 2006Description: xiii, 224 pISBN:- 9788130900919
- 510 T112
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | UE-Central Library | 510 T112 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | T1984 |
includes glossary and index
1. P1: Numbers for computation
2. The first problems
3. Early counting systems
4. Our place value number system
5. Analytical engines
6. P2: Extending the idea of a number
7. An evolving concept of a number
8. Negative numbers
9. Algebraic numbers
10. Transcendental numbers and the search for meaning
11. P3: The problem of infinity
12. Galileo and Bolzano
13. Georg Cantor and the logic of the infinite
14. Cantor’s legacy
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