The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men
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Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? Do numbers truly exist?
What sort of reality do formulas describe?The complexity of
mathematics - its abstract rules and obscure symbols - can seem
very distant from the everyday. There are those things that are
real and present, it is supposed, and then there are mathematical
concepts: creations of our mind, mysterious tools for those
unengaged with the world. Yet, from its most remote history and
deepest purpose, mathematics has served not just as a way to
understand and order, but also as a foundation for the reality it
describes.In this elegant book, mathematician and philosopher Paolo
Zellini offers a brief cultural and intellectual history of
mathematics, ranging widely from the paradoxes of ancient Greece to
the sacred altars of India, from Mesopotamian calculus to our own
contemporary obsession with algorithms. Masterful and illuminating,
The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men transforms
our understanding of mathematical thinking, showing that it is
inextricably linked with the philosophical and the religious as
well as the mundane - and, indeed, with our own very human
experience of the universe.
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