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Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-08-22 - Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks

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A Brief History of Infinity
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Pages: 160
Authors: Brian Clegg
Categories: Mathematics
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'Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the street to the ch
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A dynamic exploration of infinity In Infinity and the Mind, Rudy Rucker leads an excursion to that stretch of the universe he calls the “Mindscape,” where h
Symmetry: A Very Short Introduction
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Pages: 152
Authors: Ian Stewart
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In the 1800s mathematicians introduced a formal theory of symmetry: group theory. Now a branch of abstract algebra, this subject first arose in the theory of eq