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BL
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| Record Number
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999628
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b753998
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| Main Entry
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Guillen, Michael.
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| Title & Author
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Bridges to infinity : : the human side of mathematics /\ Michael Guillen.
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| Edition Statement
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1st ed.
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| Publication Statement
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Los Angeles :: J.P. Tarcher ;Boston :: Distributed by Houghton Mifflin,, ©1983.
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| Page. NO
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204 pages ;; 22 cm
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| ISBN
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0874772338
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: 0874773458
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: 9780874772333
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: 9780874773453
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-192) and index.
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| Contents
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Fantasizing -- Certain treasure -- Logic and proof -- Locating the vanishing point -- Limit and calculus -- Irrational thinking -- Continuity and numbers -- Beyond infinity -- Cantorian set theory and transfinite numbers -- Singular ideas -- Natural infinities -- Inventing reality -- Applying abstract mathematics -- Abstract symmetry -- Group theory -- Realm of manifold possibilities -- Dimension -- Zero and the null set -- Compromising -- Non-Euclidean geometries -- Article of faith -- Godel's theorem -- Optimizing -- Cloudy crystal ball -- Probability theory and statistics -- Between checkers and chess -- Two-person game theory -- Three-person game theory -- Topology -- Familiar faces of change -- Catastrophe theory -- Combinatorics.
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| Abstract
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This book is an endlessly fascinating journey through a mathematician's looking glass.
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Mathematics, Popular works.
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Mathématiques, Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
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Mathematics.
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| Dewey Classification
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510
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| LC Classification
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QA93.G8 1983
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