The Language of Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible - Hardcover

Devlin, Keith

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Synopsis

Explains both the historical development and the current breadth of mathematics without assuming any technical knowledge on the part of the reader

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About the Author

KEITH DEVLIN is Dean of the School of Science at Saint Mary's College of California and Senior Researcher at Stanford University's Center for the Study of Language and Information. A key participant in the six-part PBS television series "Life by the Numbers," he is the author of Life by the Numbers; Goodbye, Descartes; Logic and Information; and Mathematics: The New Golden Age. His most recent book is InfoSense: Turning Information into Knowledge (W.H. Freeman, 1999). Since 1983, he has written a regular column on mathematics and computers for The Guardian in his native Britain, and writes a monthly column, "Devlin's Angle," for the Web journal MAA Online.

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...he skillfully gives both a history of the subject and a guide through the terrain.... Keith Devlin is an apt teacher of the language.

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ISBN 10:  0805072543 ISBN 13:  9780805072549
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks, 2000
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