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How to Count to Infinity

How to Count to Infinity

by Marcus Du Sautoy
Hardback
Publication Date: 26/09/2017

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Animals and humans have been using numbers to navigate their way through the jungle of life ever since we all evolved on this planet. But this book will help you to do something that humans have only recently understood how to do: to count to regions that no animal has ever reached. By the end of this book you'll be able to count to infinity... and beyond.

On our way to infinity we'll discover how the ancient Babylonians used their bodies to count to 60 (which gave us 60 minutes in the hour), how the number zero was only discovered in the 7th century by Indian mathematicians contemplating the void, why in China going into the red meant your numbers had gone negative and why numbers might be our best language for communicating with alien life.

But for millennia, contemplating infinity has sent even the greatest minds into a spin. Then at the end of the nineteenth century mathematicians discovered a way to think about infinity that revealed that it is a number that we can count. Not only that. They found that there are an infinite number of infinities, some bigger than others.

Just using the finite neurons in your brain and the finite pages in this book, you'll have your mind blown discovering the secret of how to count to infinity.

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ISBN:
9781786484970
9781786484970
Category:
Popular mathematics
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
26-09-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Quercus
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
199x142x13mm
Weight:
0.21kg

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