Keith Devlin The man of numbers

"In 1202, a 32-year old Italian finished one of the most influential books of all time, which introduced modern arithmetic to Western Europe. Devised in India in the seventh and eighth centuries and brought to North Africa by Muslim traders, the Hindu-Arabic system helped transform the West into the dominant force in science, technology, and commerce, leaving behind Muslim cultures which had long known it but had failed to see its potential. The young Italian, Leonardo of Pisa (better known today...

Engels | 192 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Keith Devlin The math instinct

why you're a mathematical genius (along with lobsters, birds, cats and dogs)

Engels | 279 pagina's | Thunder's Mouth Press, New York, NY | 2005

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Keith Devlin The maths gene

why everyone has it, but most people don't use it

Engels | 305 pagina's | Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London | 2000

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Keith Devlin The language of mathematics

making the invisible visible

Studie over de invloed van wiskunde op het dagelijkse leven van de mens

Engels | 344 pagina's | Freeman, New York | 1998

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Keith Devlin Goodbye, Descartes

the end of logic and the search for a new cosmology of the mind

Engels | 301 pagina's | Wiley, New York [etc.] | 1997

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Keith Devlin Mathematics: the science of patterns

the search for order in life, mind, and the universe

Engels | 215 pagina's | Scientific American Library, New York | 1994

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Keith Devlin Mathematics: the new golden age

Engels | 287 pagina's | Penguin Books, London [etc.] | 1988

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