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Paperback What Is a Number?: Mathematical Concepts and Their Origins Book

ISBN: 0801890187

ISBN13: 9780801890185

What Is a Number?: Mathematical Concepts and Their Origins

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2009 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice

Mathematics often seems incomprehensible, a melee of strange symbols thrown down on a page. But while formulae, theorems, and proofs can involve highly complex concepts, the math becomes transparent when viewed as part of a bigger picture. What Is a Number? provides that picture.

Robert Tubbs examines how mathematical concepts like number, geometric truth, infinity, and proof have...

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