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Infinity : the quest to think the unthinkable / Brian Clegg.
- Title
- Infinity : the quest to think the unthinkable / Brian Clegg.
- Author
- Clegg, Brian.
- Publication
- New York : Carroll & Graf, 2003.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | BD411 .C544 2003x | Off-site |
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- Description
- 255 p. : ill.; 20 cm.
- Summary
- This book examines amazing paradoxes and explores the most mind-boggling feature of maths and physics.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-249) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- To infinity and beyond -- Counting on your fingers -- A different mathematics -- The power of number -- The absolute -- Labelling the infinite -- Peeking under the carpet -- The indivisible mystery -- Fluxion wars -- Paradoxes of the infinite -- Set in stone -- Thinking the unthinkable -- Order versus the cardinals -- An infinity of infinities -- Madness and sanity -- Infinitesimally small -- Infinity to go -- Endless fascination.
- ISBN
- 0786712856
- OCLC
- 54059262
- SCSB-10636501
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library