The mathematics of the gods and the algorithms of men a cultural history
Abstraction, existence and reality -- Mathematics of the gods -- Mathematical and philosophical formulas -- Growth and decrease, number and nature -- Katà gnómonos phýsin: the nature of the Gnomon -- Dýnamis: the capacity to produce -- Intermission: spiritual mechanics -- Zeno's paradoxes: the...
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Sprache: | eng |
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New York, London
Pegasus Books
2020
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Ausgabe: | First Pegasus Books edition |
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Zusammenfassung: | Abstraction, existence and reality -- Mathematics of the gods -- Mathematical and philosophical formulas -- Growth and decrease, number and nature -- Katà gnómonos phýsin: the nature of the Gnomon -- Dýnamis: the capacity to produce -- Intermission: spiritual mechanics -- Zeno's paradoxes: the explanation of movement -- The paradoxes of plurality -- The limited and the limitless: incommensurability and algorithms -- The reality of numbers: Cantor's fundamental sequences -- The reality of numbers: Dedekind's section -- Mathematics: a discovery or an invention? -- From the continuum to the digital -- The growth of numbers -- The growth of matrices -- The crisis of fundamentals and the growth of complexity: reality and efficiency -- Verum et factum -- Recursion and invariability |
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Beschreibung: | 240 Seiten Illustrationen 22 cm |
ISBN: | 9781643134147 978-1-64313-414-7 |