Mathematics and the imagination.

MaRDI QIDQ2711807zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Edward Kasner, James R. Newman

Publication date 26 April 2001

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Mathematics for nonmathematicians (engineering, social sciences, etc.) (00A06)

Review text

The development of mathematics is a counterpart of the everlasting struggle for greater comprehensiveness and greater freedom: from the particular to the general, from configurations bounded by straight lines to pathological curves, from the properties of this or that specific figure to the properties of all figures, from one dimension to \(n\) dimensions, from the finite to the infinite. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe original publication appeared in 1941 by Simon \& Schuster, an English ed. was published in 1949 (London: Bell \& Suns), and an Italian translation by Bompiani (Milano) in 1948.

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