What is a number? : mathematical concepts and their origins /
Tubbs, Robert, 1954-
What is a number? : mathematical concepts and their origins / Robert Tubbs. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. - x, 305 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-290) and index.
Mysticism, number, and geometry : an introduction to Pythagoreanism -- The Elgin Marbles and Plato's geometric chemistry -- An introduction to infinity -- The flat Earth and the spherical sky -- Theology, logic, and questions about angels -- Time, infinity, and incommensurability -- Medieval theories of vision and the discovery of space -- The shape of space and the fourth dimension -- What is a number? -- The dual nature of points and lines -- Modern mathematical infinity -- Elegance and truth.
9780801890178 (hardcover : acidfree paper) 9780801890185 (pbk. : acid-free paper) 0801890179 (hardcover : acid-free paper) 0801890187 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
2008013745
Mathematics--Philosophy.
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.
Mathematics--History.
QA8.4 / .T83 2009
510.1
What is a number? : mathematical concepts and their origins / Robert Tubbs. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. - x, 305 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-290) and index.
Mysticism, number, and geometry : an introduction to Pythagoreanism -- The Elgin Marbles and Plato's geometric chemistry -- An introduction to infinity -- The flat Earth and the spherical sky -- Theology, logic, and questions about angels -- Time, infinity, and incommensurability -- Medieval theories of vision and the discovery of space -- The shape of space and the fourth dimension -- What is a number? -- The dual nature of points and lines -- Modern mathematical infinity -- Elegance and truth.
9780801890178 (hardcover : acidfree paper) 9780801890185 (pbk. : acid-free paper) 0801890179 (hardcover : acid-free paper) 0801890187 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
2008013745
Mathematics--Philosophy.
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.
Mathematics--History.
QA8.4 / .T83 2009
510.1