Reprint. Originally published: Boston: Birkh'auser, 1981.
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"A true gem, one of the masterpieces of our age."
"A brilliant and engrossing view of the development of mathematics...wonderful at communicating its beauty and excitement to the general reader." The New York Times
"A perfectly marvelous book." The New Yorker
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Phillip J. Davis is professor of applied mathematics at Brown University.
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