Ebook {Epub PDF} The Art of the Infinite: The Pleasures of Mathematics by Robert M. Kaplan

 · "Mathematics is permanent revolution." That's one of my favorite sentences from Bob and Ellen Kaplan's The Art of the Infinite. It works on so many levels: on the one hand they're saying that the great revolutionary ideas of mathematics are continually being born out of and built upon the ideas that preceded them. The Art of the Infinite The Tower of Mathematics is the Tower of Babel inverted: its voices grow more coherent as it rises. The image of it is based on Pieter Brueghel’s “Little Tower of Babel” (). The Art of the Infinite: The Pleasures of Mathematics Robert Kaplan and Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins. The Art of the Infinite: The Pleasures of Mathematics Robert Kaplan, Author, Ellen Kaplan, Joint Author Oxford University Press $28 (p) ISBN More By and About This Author.

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Book Overview. The Art of the Infinite takes infinity, in its countless guises, as a touchstone for understanding mathematical thinking. Robert and Ellen Kaplan guide us through the "Republic of Numbers," where we meet both its upstanding citizens and its more shadowy dwellers; and transport us across the plane of geometry into the unlikely realm where parallel lines meet. The Art of the Infinite-Robert Kaplan Traces the development of mathematical thinking and describes the characteristics of the "republic of numbers" in terms of humankind's fascination with, and growing knowledge of, infinity. Robert Kaplan's The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero was an international best-seller, translated into ten languages. The Times called it "elegant, discursive, and littered with quotes and allusions from Aquinas via Gershwin to Woolf" and The Philadelphia Inquirer praised it as"absolutely scintillating."In this delightful new book, Robert Kaplan, writing together with his wife Ellen.