Mathematics The Music Of Reason

Author : Jean Dieudonne
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 366235358X
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mathematics — The Music of Reason written by Jean Dieudonne and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is of interest for students of mathematics or of neighboring subjects like physics, engineering, computer science, and also for people who have at least school level mathematics and have kept some interest in it. Also good for younger readers just reaching their final school year of mathematics.

Author : Jean Dieudonne
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540533467
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mathematics — The Music of Reason written by Jean Dieudonne and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1998-07-20 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is of interest for students of mathematics or of neighboring subjects like physics, engineering, computer science, and also for people who have at least school level mathematics and have kept some interest in it. Also good for younger readers just reaching their final school year of mathematics.

Author : Cris Forster
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811874076
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Musical Mathematics written by Cris Forster and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2010-07-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musical Mathematics is the definitive tome for the adventurous musician. Integrating mathematics, music history, and hands-on experience, this volume serves as a comprehensive guide to the tunings and scales of acoustic instruments from around the world. Author, composer, and builder Cris Forster illuminates the mathematical principles of acoustic music, offering practical information and new discoveries about both traditional and innovative instruments.With this knowledge readers can improve, or begin to build, their own instruments inspired by Forster's creationsshown in 16 color plates. For those ready to step outside musical conventions and those whose curiosity about the science of sound is never satisfied, Musical Mathematics is the map to a new musical world.

Author : Paul Lockhart
Publisher : Bellevue Literary Press
ISBN 13 : 1934137332
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Mathematician's Lament written by Paul Lockhart and published by Bellevue Literary Press. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the best critiques of current mathematics education I have ever seen.”—Keith Devlin, math columnist on NPR’s Morning Edition A brilliant research mathematician who has devoted his career to teaching kids reveals math to be creative and beautiful and rejects standard anxiety-producing teaching methods. Witty and accessible, Paul Lockhart’s controversial approach will provoke spirited debate among educators and parents alike and it will alter the way we think about math forever. Paul Lockhart, has taught mathematics at Brown University and UC Santa Cruz. Since 2000, he has dedicated himself to K-12 level students at St. Ann’s School in Brooklyn, New York.

Author : Noson S. Yanofsky
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026252984X
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Outer Limits of Reason written by Noson S. Yanofsky and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exploration of the scientific limits of knowledge challenges our deep-seated beliefs about our universe, our rationality, and ourselves. “A must-read for anyone studying information science.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review Many books explain what is known about the universe. This book investigates what cannot be known. Rather than exploring the amazing facts that science, mathematics, and reason have revealed to us, this work studies what science, mathematics, and reason tell us cannot be revealed. In The Outer Limits of Reason, Noson Yanofsky considers what cannot be predicted, described, or known, and what will never be understood. He discusses the limitations of computers, physics, logic, and our own intuitions about the world—including our ideas about space, time, and motion, and the complex relationship between the knower and the known. Yanofsky describes simple tasks that would take computers trillions of centuries to complete and other problems that computers can never solve: • perfectly formed English sentences that make no sense • different levels of infinity • the bizarre world of the quantum • the relevance of relativity theory • the causes of chaos theory • math problems that cannot be solved by normal means • statements that are true but cannot be proven Moving from the concrete to the abstract, from problems of everyday language to straightforward philosophical questions to the formalities of physics and mathematics, Yanofsky demonstrates a myriad of unsolvable problems and paradoxes. Exploring the various limitations of our knowledge, he shows that many of these limitations have a similar pattern and that by investigating these patterns, we can better understand the structure and limitations of reason itself. Yanofsky even attempts to look beyond the borders of reason to see what, if anything, is out there.

Author : Edward Rothstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780812727470
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emblems of Mind written by Edward Rothstein and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Guerino Mazzola
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 303488141X
Total Pages : 1310 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Topos of Music written by Guerino Mazzola and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 1310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributions by numerous experts

Author : Francis Su
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300248814
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mathematics for Human Flourishing written by Francis Su and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Mathematics Association of America's 2021 Euler Book Prize, this is an inclusive vision of mathematics—its beauty, its humanity, and its power to build virtues that help us all flourish“This is perhaps the most important mathematics book of our time. Francis Su shows mathematics is an experience of the mind and, most important, of the heart.”—James Tanton, Global Math Project"A good book is an entertaining read. A great book holds up a mirror that allows us to more clearly see ourselves and the world we live in. Francis Su’s Mathematics for Human Flourishing is both a good book and a great book."—MAA Reviews For mathematician Francis Su, a society without mathematical affection is like a city without concerts, parks, or museums. To miss out on mathematics is to live without experiencing some of humanity’s most beautiful ideas.In this profound book, written for a wide audience but especially for those disenchanted by their past experiences, an award‑winning mathematician and educator weaves parables, puzzles, and personal reflections to show how mathematics meets basic human desires—such as for play, beauty, freedom, justice, and love—and cultivates virtues essential for human flourishing. These desires and virtues, and the stories told here, reveal how mathematics is intimately tied to being human. Some lessons emerge from those who have struggled, including philosopher Simone Weil, whose own mathematical contributions were overshadowed by her brother’s, and Christopher Jackson, who discovered mathematics as an inmate in a federal prison. Christopher’s letters to the author appear throughout the book and show how this intellectual pursuit can—and must—be open to all.

Author : John Fauvel
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199298938
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music and Mathematics written by John Fauvel and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ancient Greek times, music has been seen as a mathematical art, and the relationship between mathematics and music has fascinated generations. This work links these two subjects in a manner that is suitable for students of both subjects, as well as the general reader with an interest in music.

Author : Eli Maor
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691202966
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music by the Numbers written by Eli Maor and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How music has influenced mathematics, physics, and astronomy from ancient Greece to the twentieth century.