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" Is God a Mathematician? / "
Livio, Mario.
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1024413
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b778783
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Livio, Mario.
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Is God a Mathematician? /\ Livio, Mario.
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[Place of publication not identified] :: Simon & Schuster,, 2011.
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1 online resource
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1 online resource (320 pages)
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1416594434
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: 9781416594437
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0743294068
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9780743294065
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Electronic book.
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| Contents
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A mystery -- Mystics : the numerologist and the philsopher -- Magicians : the master and the heretic -- Magicians : the skeptic and the giant -- Statisticians and probabilists : the science of uncertainty -- Geometers : future shock -- Logicians : thinking about reasoning -- Unreasonable effectiveness? -- On the human mind, mathematics, and the universe.
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Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner once wondered about "the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics" in the formulation of the laws of nature. Is God a Mathematician? Mathematicians themselves often insist that their work has no practical effect. The British mathematician G.H. Hardy went so far as to describe his own work this way: "No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world." He was wrong. The Hardy-Weinberg law allows population geneticists to predict how genes are transmitted from one generation to the next, and Hardy's work on the theory of numbers found unexpected implications in the development of codes. Physicist and author Mario Livio brilliantly explores mathematical ideas from Pythagoras to the present day as he shows us how intriguing questions and ingenious answers have led to ever deeper insights into our world. This fascinating book will interest anyone curious about the human mind, the scientific world, and the relationship between them.
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Mathematics.
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History.
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History.
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History.
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Mathematics.
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Mathematics.
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Mathematics.
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Philosophy.
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Philosophy.
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SCIENCE.
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Nonfiction.
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Nonfiction.
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510
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QA8.4L566 2014
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MAT015000PHI004000SCI034000bisacsh
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3M Company.
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