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Mathematics and the real world : the remarkable role of evolution in the making of mathematics
Item details
- ISBN: 9781616140915 (hardback)
- ISBN: 1616140917 (hardback)
- ISBN: 9781616145460 (ebook)
- ISBN: 1616145463 (ebook)
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426 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm - Publisher: Amherst, New York : Prometheus Books, 2014.
Contents / Notes
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-416) and indexes. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Evolution, mathematics, and the evolution of mathematics -- Mathematics and the Greeks' view of the world -- Mathematics and the view of the world in early modern times -- Mathematics and the modern view of the world -- The mathematics of randomness -- The mathematics of human behavior -- computations and computers -- Is there really no doubt? -- The nature of research in mathematics -- Why is teaching and learning mathematics so hard? |
| Language Note: | Translation of: Hakesher hamatemati : hamatematika shell hateva, hateva shell hamatematika ve-hazika la-evolutzia. |
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| Subject: | Mathematics Philosophy MATHEMATICS / History & Philosophy SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution MATHEMATICS / General Mathematics Philosophy |
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