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Language: English
Published by Dover Publications, 1992
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- Title
- Mathematics and Logic
- Author
- Kac, Mark; Ulam, Stanislaw M.
- Publisher
- Dover Publications
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0486670856
- ISBN 13
- 9780486670850
- Item weight
- 0.68 pounds
Fascinating study considers the origins and nature of mathematics, its development and role in the history of scientific thinking, impact of high-speed computers, 20th-century changes in the foundations of mathematics and mathematical logic, mathematization of science and technology, much more. Compelling reading for anyone interested in the evolution of mathematical thought. Includes 34 illustrations. 1968 edition.
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About the Author
Mark Kac was a distinguished mathematician formerly of the Rockefeller Institute and Cornell University. Stanislaw M. Ulam was a well-known nuclear scientist and mathematician who worked on the Manhattan Project and taught at Harvard University and the Universities of Wisconsin and Colorado.
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