What Is a Number?: Mathematical Concepts and Their Origins

by Robert Tubbs

Book Overview

2009 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice

Mathematics often seems incomprehensible, a melee of strange symbols thrown down on a page. But while formulae, theorems, and proofs can involve highly complex concepts, the math becomes transparent when viewed as part of a bigger picture. What Is a Number? provides that picture.

Robert Tubbs examines how mathematical concepts like number, geometric truth, infinity, and proof have...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801890187
• ISBN13: 9780801890185
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.7"