Author: JOHN ALLEN PAULOS
Title: Once Upon a Number
Description: Penguin Books, 2000. Paperback. Pp: 214. Once Upon a Number shows that stories and numbers aren't as different as you might imagine, and in fact they have surprising and fascinating connections. The concepts of logic and probability both grew out of intuitive ideas about how certain stories would play out. Now, logicians are inventing ways to deal with real world situations by mathematical means - by acknowledging, for instance, that items that are mathematically interchangeable may not be interchangeable in a story. And complexity theory looks at both number strings and narrative strings in remarkably similar terms. ISBN: 9780140281798. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780140281798
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Title: Once Upon a Number
Description: Penguin Books, 2000. Paperback. Pp: 214. Once Upon a Number shows that stories and numbers aren't as different as you might imagine, and in fact they have surprising and fascinating connections. The concepts of logic and probability both grew out of intuitive ideas about how certain stories would play out. Now, logicians are inventing ways to deal with real world situations by mathematical means - by acknowledging, for instance, that items that are mathematically interchangeable may not be interchangeable in a story. And complexity theory looks at both number strings and narrative strings in remarkably similar terms. ISBN: 9780140281798. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780140281798
Price: EUR 7.00 = appr. US$ 7.61 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 2355627
- Book number: 2355627
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