Very Good Condition. No dust jacket. Cover is curling slightly. No marks on the text block. No marks of previous ownership or inscriptions. ; Height: 9.24 Inches, Length: 6.16 Inches, Weight: 1.21695168624 Pounds, Wid; 344 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

The Language of Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible

Publisher

W. H. Freeman

Publication Date

2000

Language

English

ISBN 10

0716739674

ISBN 13

9780716739678

Binding

Paperback

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

No Dust Jacket

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Synopsis

Keith Devlin reveals the role mathematics plays in our eternal quest to understand who we are and the world we live in. More than just the study of numbers, mathematics provides us with the eyes to recognise and describe the hidden patterns of life. Supported with a variety of examples including - what keeps a jumbo jet in the air, how we forecast the weather and predict changes in the stock market, Devlin shows how mathematics can be used to describe and explain the world about us.

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.

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