Mathematics and logic / Mark Kac and Stanislaw M. Ulam

• A description of the historical development of mathematics with a brief survey of high points and trenchant influences, originally published in 1986 by Praeger. A remarkable bargain. Fascinating study considers the origins and nature of mathematics, its development and role in the history of scientific thinking, impact of high-speed computers, 20th-century changes in the foundations of mathematics and mathematical logic, mathematization of science and technology, much more. Compelling reading for mathematicians, physicists, students?anyone interested in the evolution of mathematical thought. 34 illustrations. 1968 edition. 

Ämnesord

Mathematics  -- Popular works. (LCSH)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Mathematics

Klassifikation

QA93 (LCC)

510 (DDC)

MAT 030f (stub)

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