Format:
1 Online-Ressource (420 pages)
ISBN:
9780226647036
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Playing with Pebbles -- 1: World War Crisis -- 2: The Greeks: A Protohistory of Theory -- 3: Plato, Aristotle, and the Future of Western Thought -- 4: Monotheism's Math Problem -- 5: From Descartes to Kant: An Outrageously Succinct History of Philosophy -- 6: What Numbers Need: Or, When Does 2 + 2 = 4? -- 7: Physics (and Poetry): Willing Sameness and Difference -- 8: Axioms of Desire: Economics and the Social Sciences -- 9: Killing Time -- 10: Ethical Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226646985
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Nirenberg, David, 1964 - Uncountable Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021 ISBN 9780226646985
Language:
English
Keywords:
Mathematik
;
Zahlensystem
;
Geschichte
;
Mathematik
;
Zählen
;
Auernheimer, Raoul 1876-1948 Gesellschaft
;
Geschichte
;
Numerische Mathematik
Author information:
Nirenberg, David 1964-
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