Название: New Scientist The Collection
Год / месяц: 2017
Номер: Infinity and Beyond
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 16.8 Mb
Язык: English

Love it or loathe it, there is no escape: mathematics is out there. We live in a world that is in some sense mathematical - although in precisely what sense is still hotly debated by mathematicians, physicists, philosophers and others. We are, as a result, innately mathematical beings. Crossing the road, catching a ball, stacking the dishwasher: in our everyday lives we are constantly, unconsciously, manipulating numbers, assessing shapes, calculating position, geometry and motion. We are doing maths.
Infinity and Beyond, the latest issue of New Scientist: The Collection, aims to bridge the divide between the sublime and the mundane, and explore both the mystery and fascination of figures, including: zero, infinity, wonder numbers, probability and statistics, symmetry and reality, computational complexity, maths and your brain, and much more.