For mathematicians, their subject is both beautiful and intellectual. However, for others, it is exactly the opposite: a barren world filled with tedious "sums" and incomprehensible symbols.
What I want to show you is the beauty; I will completely omit the sums. Of course, they are there, in the background, but only physicists and mathematicians need to know their horrific details. Therefore, I will hide them from you, there in the background, where they belong. They have their own beauty, but only for the eccentric taste of specialists.
However, we all admire the beauty of mathematical shapes; I will prove this to you by using the shapes of nature, and... I will not deceive you - after all, from these shapes of everyday life, we have derived our mathematics.
[Excerpt from the text of the preface]
Manufacturer
- Author
- Ian Stewart
- Publisher
- Traylos
- Original Title
- What shape is a snowflake
- Type
- Geography, Mathematics of Positive Sciences
- Language
- Greek
- Subtitle
- From the shape of the avalanche to the shape of the universe
- Cover
- Hardcover
- Number of Pages
- 224
- Publication Date
- 2003
- Dimensions
- 20x23 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789607990716
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