Number : The Language of Science, the Masterpiece Science Edition
Mazur, Joseph, Dantzig, Tobias, Mazur, Barry
Language: English
Published by Penguin Publishing Group, 2005
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- Title
- Number : The Language of Science, the Masterpiece Science Edition
- Author
- Mazur, Joseph, Dantzig, Tobias, Mazur, Barry
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0131856278
- ISBN 13
- 9780131856271
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Item weight
- 1.213 pounds
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About the Author
Tobias Dantzig was born in Latvia in 1884. As a young man, he was caught distributing anti-Tsar propaganda and fled to Paris, where he studied under Henri Poincaré. He moved to the United States in 1910 and took a job as a lumberjack in the forests of Oregon. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Indiana University in 1916, and taught at Johns Hopkins, Columbia University, and the University of Maryland. He died in 1956.
Joseph Mazur is Professor of Mathematics at Marlboro College where he has taught a wide range of classes in all areas of mathematics, its history and philosophy. He is the author of Euclid in the Rainforest: Discovering Universal Truth in Logic and Math.
Barry Mazur is the Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University. He teaches and does research in mathematics. He is the author of Imagining Numbers (especially the square root of minus fifteen).
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