The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men: A Cultural History by Erica Segre, Carnell Simon, Paolo Zellini

The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men: A Cultural History

Erica Segre, Carnell Simon, Paolo Zellini

240 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy science challenging informative slow-paced
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A masterful cultural history of mathematics from bestselling Italian mathematician and philosopher Paolo Zellini. Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? Have we invented numbers or do they truly exist? What sort of reality should we attribut...

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