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Mathematics: The Science of Patterns - The Search for Order in Life, Mind and the Universe ("Scientific American" Library) - Hardcover
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Mathematics is more usefully understood as the study of patterns - real or imagined, visual or mental, arising from the natural world or from within the human mind. With a minimum of formulae and no elaborate formal proofs, Devlin presents mathematics as a unique human endeavour that helps us to understand the universe and ourselves.
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Keith Devlin is Dean of the School of Science, Saint Mary's College of California, Moraga, California.
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Mathematics: The Science of Patterns - The Search for Order in Life, Mind and the Universe
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Scientific American Library, 1994
ISBN 10: 0716750473
ISBN 13: 9780716750475
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Hardback. Condition: Good. Mathematics is more usefully understood as the study of patterns - real or imagined, visual or mental, arising from the natural world or from within the human mind. With a minimum of formulae and no elaborate formal proofs, Devlin presents mathematics as a unique human endeavour that helps us to understand the universe and ourselves. Seller Inventory # 00106391720
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Mathematics: The Science of Patterns : The Search for Order in Life, Mind, and the Universe (Scientific American Library)
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Mathematics: The Science of Patterns : The Search for Order in Life, Mind, and the Universe (Scientific American Library)
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