Eight Lessons on Infinity: A Mathematical Adventure by Dr Haim Shapira | Infinity Books - Amazon

Do you want to learn about the most beautiful concept ever invented by humankind?: infinity, so check it out Books By Haim Shapira.
 

Eight Lessons on Infinity: A Mathematical Adventure

Best-selling author and mathematician, Dr Haim Shapira will inspire you with his humorous and engaging exploration of infinity. Written in clear, simple language and aimed at a lay audience, this book also offers some strategies that will allow readers to try their ability at solving truly fascinating mathematical problems. Infinity is a deeply counter-intuitive concept that has inspired many great thinkers.
 
In this book we will meet many sages, both familiar and unfamiliar: Zeno and Pythagoras, Georg Cantor and Bertrand Russell, Sofia Kovalevskaya and Emmy Noether, al-Khwarizmi and Euclid, Sophie Germain and Srinivasa Ramanujan. The world of infinity is inhabited by many paradoxes, and so is this book: Zeno paradoxes, Hilbert's Infinity Hotel, Achilles and the gods paradox, the paradox of heaven and hell, the Ross-Littlewood paradox involving tennis balls, the Galileo paradox and many more.  

Publication date 16 Apr 2019
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