Euclid in the Rainforest

Euclid in the Rainforest
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 353
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ISBN-10 : 9781101664872
ISBN-13 : 1101664878
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Book Synopsis Euclid in the Rainforest by : Joseph Mazur

Download or read book Euclid in the Rainforest written by Joseph Mazur and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-07-25 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach, and David Berlinski’s A Tour of the Calculus, Euclid in the Rainforest combines the literary with the mathematical to explore logic—the one indispensable tool in man’s quest to understand the world. Underpinning both math and science, it is the foundation of every major advancement in knowledge since the time of the ancient Greeks. Through adventure stories and historical narratives populated with a rich and quirky cast of characters, Mazur artfully reveals the less-than-airtight nature of logic and the muddled relationship between math and the real world. Ultimately, Mazur argues, logical reasoning is not purely robotic. At its most basic level, it is a creative process guided by our intuitions and beliefs about the world.


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