Eugenia Cheng: Beyond Infinity | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781781252864 | Beyond Infinity | Eugenia Cheng | Taschenbuch | X | Englisch | 2018

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Beschreibung

Even small children know there are infinitely many whole numbers - start counting and you'll never reach the end. But there are also infinitely many decimal numbers between zero and one. Are these two types of infinity the same? Are they larger or smaller than each other? Can we even talk about 'larger' and 'smaller' when we talk about infinity? In Beyond Infinity, international maths sensation Eugenia Cheng reveals the inner workings of [...] happens when a new guest arrives at your infinite hotel - but you already have an infinite number of guests? How does infinity give Zeno's tortoise the edge in a paradoxical foot-race with Achilles? And can we really make an infinite number of cookies from a finite amount of cookie dough?Wielding an armoury of inventive, intuitive metaphor, Cheng draws beginners and enthusiasts alike into the heart of this mysterious, powerful concept to reveal fundamental truths about mathematics, all the way from the infinitely large down to the infinitely small.

Über den Autor

Eugenia Cheng is Honorary Fellow in Pure Mathematics at the University of Sheffield and Scientist in Residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was educated at the University of Cambridge and did post-doctoral work at the Universities of Cambridge, Chicago and Nice. Since 2007 her YouTube lectures and videos have been viewed over a million times. A concert pianist, she also speaks French, English and Cantonese, and her mission in life is to rid the world of maths phobia. She is the author of How to Bake Pi.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2018
Fachbereich:	Populäre Darstellungen
Genre:	Importe , Mathematik
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	X 284 S.
ISBN-13:	9781781252864
ISBN-10:	1781252866
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Cheng, Eugenia
Auflage:	Main
Hersteller:	Profile Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestraße 122 a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Abbildungen:	Integrated charts, diagrams and figures throughout
Maße:	197 x 128 x 22 mm
Von/Mit:	Eugenia Cheng
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.03.2018
Gewicht:	0,24 kg

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