Mathematics, the science of patterns : the search for order in life, mind, and the universe

Author(s)

• Devlin, Keith J.

Bibliographic Information

Mathematics, the science of patterns : the search for order in life, mind, and the universe

Keith Devlin

（Scientific American library, 52）

Scientific American Library, 1994

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

ISBN 9780716750475

Description

Mathematics is more usefully understood as the study of patterns - real or imagined, visual or mental, arising from the natural world or from within the human mind. With a minimum of formulae and no elaborate formal proofs, Devlin presents mathematics as a unique human endeavour that helps us to understand the universe and ourselves.

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780716760221

Description

"An attractive and wonderful book about an attractive, wonderful, and woefully misunderstood subject. If you think that mathematics is only about numbers and is only useful for making out your income tax, Keith Devlin's book will open your eyes to a new world - Mathematics, the Science of Patterns." Ian Stewart, author of Another Fine Math You've Got Me Into ...

Table of Contents

• Counting
• reasoning and communicating
• motion and change
• shape
• symmetry and regularity
• position.

by "Nielsen BookData"

Details

• NCID: BA23490092
• ISBN:
  • 0716750473
  • 0716760223
• LCCN: 94011366
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: vii, 215 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QA36
  • DC20 : 510/.1
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Mathematics
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00143577