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Euclid In The Rainforest

Discovering Universal Truth in Logic and Math

ISBN-13: 9780452287839

Contributor(s): Joseph Mazur

Subject: Popular Science

Publisher Imprint: Plume

Publication Date: 02-10-2006

Format: Paperback

Availability: Out of stock

£10.99

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About the book

Like Douglas Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach and David Berlinski's A Tour of the Calculus, Euclid in the Rainforest combines the literary with the mathematical to explore logic - the one indispensable tool in man's quest to understand the world. Through adventure stories and historical narratives populated with a rich and quirky cast of characters, Mazur artfully reveals the less-than-airtight nature of logic and the muddled relationship between maths and the real world.