PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9781848314061
- Categories [2023], BX, BXOS, NF REF, Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction: Personal Development, Reference, RMI
- Author(s) Brian Clegg
- Publisher Icon Books
- Pages 176
- Format Paperback
- Dimensions 16.6cm x 12cm x 1.3cm
- Weight 0.125 kg
product description
Infinity is a profoundly counter-intuitive and brain-twisting subject that has inspired some great thinkers – and provoked and shocked others.
The ancient Greeks were so horrified by the implications of an endless number that they drowned the man who gave away the secret. And a German mathematician was driven mad by the repercussions of his discovery of transfinite numbers.
Brian Clegg and Oliver Pugh's brilliant graphic tour of infinity features a cast of characters ranging from Archimedes and Pythagoras to al-Khwarizmi, Fibonacci, Galileo, Newton, Leibniz, Cantor, Venn, Gödel and Mandelbrot, and shows how infinity has challenged the finest minds of science and mathematics. Prepare to enter a world of paradox.

