Description
A modern classic by an accomplished mathematician and best-selling author has been updated to encompass and explain the recent headline-making advances in the field in non-technical terms.
Author: Cassius Jackson Keyser
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 02/22/2001
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.98w x 0.86d
ISBN13: 9780231116398
ISBN10: 023111639X
BISAC Categories:
- Mathematics | History & Philosophy
- Science | Space Science | Astronomy
- Science | Physics | General
About the Author
Keith Devlin is the Dean of Science at Saint Mary's College of California and a Senior Researcher at Stanford University's Center for the Study of Language and Information. Since 1983, he has been a regular columnist on mathematics and computing for the Guardian newspaper in England, and he is the mathematics commentator on National Public Radio's popular "Weekend Edition" magazine program. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the author of twenty-three books on mathematics and computing, including Life by Numbers and The Language of Mathematics.