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Maor, EliMaor, Eli(Foreword by)
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To Infinity and Beyond explores the idea of infinity in mathematics and art.

Eli Maor examines the role of infinity, as well as its cultural impact on the arts and sciences.

He evokes the profound intellectual impact the infinite has exercised on the human mind--from the "horror infiniti" of the Greeks to the works of M.

C. Escher; from the ornamental designs of the Moslems, to the sage Giordano Bruno, whose belief in an infinite universe led to his death at the hands of the Inquisition.

But above all, the book describes the mathematician's fascination with infinity--a fascination mingled with puzzlement.

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Princeton University Press
0691178119 / 9780691178110
Paperback
29/10/2017
United States
296 pages, 143 color illus.
140 x 216 mm
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