The Mathematical Tourist: New and Updated Snapshots of Modern Mathematics
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- Synopsis
- To most outsiders, modern mathematics represents unknown territory. Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images, provocative ideas, and useful notions. The revised, updated book also includes new material about the structure of crystals and about discoveries illuminating the relationship between four-dimensional geometry and physical theories of the nature of time, space, and matter. It adds the application of cellular automata models to social questions and to the peregrinations of virtual ants. It extends the discussion of applications of fractals and introduces the notion of controlling chaos. A greatly expanded concluding chapter on the nature of mathematical proof includes accounts of Turing machines, transparent proofs, and how a computer program managed to prove a long-standing mathematical conjecture. It ends with the dramatic unveiling of a proof by Andrew Wiles of Fermat's last theorem.
- Copyright:
- 1998
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 269 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780760723616
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 04/11/09
- Copyrighted By:
- Ivars Peterson
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Computers and Internet
- Submitted By:
- Digital Divide Data
- Proofread By:
- Digital Divide Data
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.