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MATH WITHOUT NUMBERS - MILO BECKMAN KARTONIERT ...

An illustrated tour of the structures and patterns we call math The only numbers in this book
are the page numbers. Math Without Numbers is a vivid  conversational  and wholly original
guide to the three main branches of abstract math topology  analysis  and algebra which turn
out to be surprisingly easy to grasp. This book upends the conventional approach to math 
inviting you to think creatively about shape and dimension  the infinite and infinitesimal 
symmetries  proofs  and how these concepts all fit together. What awaits readers is a
freewheeling tour of the inimitable joys and unsolved mysteries of this curiously powerful
subject. Like the classic math allegory Flatland  first published over a century ago  or
Douglas Hofstadter's Godel  Escher  Bach forty years ago  there has never been a math book
quite like Math Without Numbers. So many popularizations of math have dwelt on numbers like pi
or zero or infinity. This book goes well beyond to questions such as: How many shapes are
there? Is anything bigger than infinity? And is math even true? Milo Beckman shows why math is
mostly just pattern recognition and how it keeps on surprising us with unexpected  useful
connections to the real world. The ambitions of this book take a special kind of author. An
inventive  original thinker pursuing his calling with jubilant passion. A prodigy. Milo Beckman
completed the graduate-level course sequence in mathematics at age sixteen  when he was a
sophomore at Harvard  while writing this book  he was studying the philosophical foundations of
physics at Columbia under Brian Greene  among others.

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