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Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture [14] (2015) Taking the Long View: The Life of Shiing-shen Chern [15] (2010) I Want To Be A Mathematician: A Conversation with Paul Halmos [16] (2009) Julia Robinson and Hilbert's Tenth Problem [17] (2008) Hard Problems: The Road to the World's Toughest Math Contest [18] (2008)
From Zero to Infinity: What Makes Numbers Interesting is a book in popular mathematics and number theory by Constance Reid. It was originally published in 1955 by the Thomas Y. Crowell Company. [ 1 ] The fourth edition was published in 1992 by the Mathematical Association of America in their MAA Spectrum series.
The relevant section of Two New Sciences is excerpted below: [2]. Simplicio: Here a difficulty presents itself which appears to me insoluble.Since it is clear that we may have one line greater than another, each containing an infinite number of points, we are forced to admit that, within one and the same class, we may have something greater than infinity, because the infinity of points in the ...
The ultimate in large numbers was, until recently, the concept of infinity, a number defined by being greater than any finite number, and used in the mathematical theory of limits. However, since the 19th century, mathematicians have studied transfinite numbers , numbers which are not only greater than any finite number, but also, from the ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 10 January 2025. American speculative fiction writer (born 1961) For other people with the same name, see John Wright (disambiguation). John C. Wright Wright in 2006 Born John Charles Justin Wright (1961-10-22) October 22, 1961 (age 63) Chula Vista, California, U.S. Occupation Writer Education St. John's ...
Playing with Infinity presents a broad panorama of mathematics for a popular audience. It is divided into three parts, the first of which concerns counting, arithmetic, and connections from numbers to geometry both through visual proofs of results in arithmetic like the sum of finite arithmetic series, and in the other direction through counting problems for geometric objects like the ...
An omnibus edition of the first four Xeelee novels (Raft, Timelike Infinity, Flux, and Ring), entitled Xeelee: An Omnibus, was released in January 2010. [10] In August 2016, the entire series of all novels and stories (up to that date) was released as one volume in e-book format entitled Xeelee Sequence: The Complete Series. [11]
Beyond Infinity : An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics is a popular mathematics book by Eugenia Cheng centered on concepts of infinity. It was published by Basic Books and (with a slightly different title) by Profile Books in 2017, [1] [2] [3] and in a paperback edition in 2018. [4] It was shortlisted for the 2017 Royal Society ...