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What Is a Number?: Mathematical Concepts and Their Origins
What Is a Number Mathematical Concepts and Their Origins
Author: Robert Tubbs
Mathematics often seems incomprehensible, a melee of strange symbols thrown down on a page. But while formulae, theorems, and proofs can involve highly complex concepts, the math becomes transparent when viewed as part of a bigger picture. What Is a Number? provides that picture.Robert Tubbs examines how mathematical concepts like number, geomet...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780801890178
ISBN-10: 0801890179
Publication Date: 12/19/2008
Pages: 320
Edition: 1
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Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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