الناشر | SIMON And SCHUSTER |
رقم الكتاب المعياري الدولي 13 | 9780743422994 |
اللغة | الإنجليزية |
العنوان الفرعي للكتاب | Mathematics, The Kabbalah And The Search For Infinity |
وصف الكتاب | From the end of the nineteenth century until his death, one of history's greatest mathematicians languished in an asylum, driven mad by an almost Faustian thirst for universal knowledge. THE MYSTERY OF THE ALEPH tells the story of Georg Cantor (1845-1918), a Russian born German whose work on the 'continuum problem' would bring us closer than any mathemetician before him in helping us to comprehend the nature of infinity. A respected mathematician himself, Dr. Aczel follows Cantor's life and traces the roots of his enigmatic theories. From the Pythagoreans, the Greek cult of mathematics, to the mystical Jewish numerology found in the Kabbalah, THE MYSTERY OF THE ALEPH follows the search for an answer that may never truly be trusted. |
المراجعة التحريرية | An engaging, pellucid explanation of the mathematical understanding of infinity, enlivened by a historical gloss on the age-old affinities between religious and secular conceptions of the infinite. |
عن المؤلف | Amir D. Aczel, Ph.d, is the author of FERMAT'S LAST THEOREM, GOD'S EQUATION, EINSTEIN'S RELATIVITY AND THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE and several other books. His work has been translated into Turkish, Hebrew, French, German, Italian, Chinese and Spanish. An internationally known mathematician, he lives in Waltham Massachusetts. |
تاريخ النشر | 18-03-2002 |
عدد الصفحات | 274 |
The Mystery Of The Aleph : Mathematics, The Kabbalah And The Search For Infinity Paperback English by Amir D. Azcel - 18-03-2002