Taming The Infinite - Folio Society edition

Taming The Infinite

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Taming The Infinite - Folio Society edition
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Taming The Infinite
Folio Society
Science & Nature

Taming The Infinite

Ian Stewart
Edition year 2012
Binding Cloth
Illustrator Stuart Daly
Weight 1.25 Kg
Pages 368
Dimensions 9½ × 6¼ in

Edition details

Taming the Infinite by Ian Stewart. Introduced by Matt Parker. Frontispiece and 24 pages of colour plates. Bound in cloth blocked with a design by Stuart Daly. 368pp. 9½×6¼in.

About the book

Ian Stewart's Taming the Infinite presents a broad history of mathematics from ancient counting systems to modern theories. The book explores major discoveries in arithmetic, geometry, algebra, calculus and beyond, while introducing the people and problems that drove mathematical development. Stewart explains difficult ideas with clarity and shows how mathematics became an essential tool for understanding the world.

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