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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1. Verfasser: Zellini, Paolo (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Carnell, Simon (ÜbersetzerIn), Segre, Erica (ÜbersetzerIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York, London Pegasus Books 2020
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
Beschreibung:240 Seiten
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22 cm
ISBN:9781643134147
978-1-64313-414-7