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| TITLE: |
What is a number? : mathematical concepts and their origins / Robert Tubbs. |
| AUTHOR: |
Tubbs, Robert, 1954- |
| PUBLISHED: |
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. |
| DESCRIPTION: |
x, 305 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| NOTES: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-290) and index. |
| NOTES: |
Mysticism, number, and geometry : an introduction to Pythagoreanism -- The Elgin Marbles and Plato’s geometric chemistry -- An introduction to infinity -- The flat Earth and the spherical sky -- Theology, logic, and questions about angels -- Time, infinity, and incommensurability -- Medieval theories of vision and the discovery of space -- The shape of space and the fourth dimension -- What is a number? -- The dual nature of points and lines -- Modern mathematical infinity -- Elegance and truth. |
| SUBJECT: |
Mathematics --Philosophy. |
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Logic, Symbolic and mathematical. |
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Mathematics--History. |
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