The mathematics of the gods and the algorithms of men a cultural history / Paolo Zellini ; translated by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre.
| Author/creator | Zellini, Paolo, 1946- |
| Other author | Carnell, Simon, 1962- |
| Other author | Segre, Erica. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First Pegasus books edition. |
| Publication Info | New York : Pegasus Books, 2020. |
| Description | 240 pages ; 22 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Abstraction, existence and reality -- Mathematics of the gods -- Mathematical and philosophical formulas -- Growth and decrease, number and nature -- Katà gnómonos phýsin: the nature of the Gnomon -- Dýnamis: the capacity to produce -- Intermission: spiritual mechanics -- Zeno's paradoxes: the explanation of movement -- The paradoxes of plurality -- The limited and the limitless: incommensurability and algorithms -- The reality of numbers: Cantor's fundamental sequences -- The reality of numbers: Dedekind's section -- Mathematics: a discovery or an invention? -- From the continuum to the digital -- The growth of numbers -- The growth of matrices -- The crisis of fundamentals and the growth of complexity: reality and efficiency -- Verum et factum -- Recursion and invariability. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-227) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022278508 |
| ISBN | 1643134140 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9781643134147 (hardcover) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |