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Images of Infinity - Softcover

Hemmings, Ray

 
9781911093466: Images of Infinity

Synopsis

Who has not wondered if there is something beyond the universe? Or if there is a biggest number? Or if there is something smaller than the smallest thing? These are questions about different infinities. Exploring the paradoxes and riddles of what infinity means is the invitation contained in this book. And, more than that, in these pages is an invitation to engage in mathematics as a creative, collaborative endeavour, linked to our intuitions and emotions and of relevance to our lives. This Second Edition, coming nearly 30 years after the first, takes classic ideas and brings them up to date with the smartphone age making it fascinating and relevant to anyone loosely interested in popular science, or more squarely, with the Queen of Sciences itself, Mathematics.

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About the Author

Ray Hemmings and Dick Tahta were pre-eminent mathematics educators in the late Twentieth Century, and formed the Leapfrogs Group to produce a range of excellent resources and to explore ideas. Alf Coles was part of this Group.

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