Zero to infinity : a history of numbers /
Los números nos rodean. Marcan nuestros días, iluminan nuestras noches, predicen nuestro clima y nos mantienen en curso. Impulsan el comercio y sostienen la civilización. ¿Pero que son ellos? Estas 24 conferencias exploran esta pregunta fascinante y la historia igualmente fascinante de los números....
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Chantilly, VA :
The teaching Company,
c2007.
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| Colección: | The Great Courses: Science & Mathematics
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part 1. Disc 1. Lecture 1. The ever-evolving notion of number
- Lecture 2. The dawn of numbers
- Lecture 3. Speaking the language of numbers
- Lecture 4. The dramatic digits-The power of zero-Lecture 5. The magical and spiritual allure of numbers-Lecture 6. Nature's numbers-Patterns without people
- Disc 2. Lecture 7. Numbers of prime importance-Lecture 8. Challenging the rationality of numbers
- Lecture 9. Walk the (number) line
- Lecture 10. The commonplace chaos among real numbers
- Lecture 11. A beautiful dusting of zeroes and twos
- Lecture 12. An intuitive sojourn into arithmetic
- Part 2. Disc 3. Lecture 13. The story of [pi]
- Lecture 14. The story of Euler's 'e'
- Lecture 15. Transcendental numbers
- Lecture 16. An algebraic approach to numbers
- Lecture 17. The five most important numbers
- Lecture 18. An analytic approach to numbers
- Disc 4. Lecture 19. A new breed of numbers
- Lecture 20. The notion of transfinite numbers
- Lecture 21. Collections too infinite to count
- Lecture 22. In and out-The road to a third infinity
- Lecture 23. Infinity-What we know and what we don't
- Lecture 24. The endless frontier of number.