Mathematics: The Science of Patterns - The Search for Order in Life, Mind, and the Universe

Keith Devlin

Scientific American Library

1994

215 páginas

7h 10m

ISBN-10: 0716750473

Mathematics is more usefully understood as the study of patterns - real or imagined, visual or mental, arising from the natural world or from within the human mind. With a minimum of formulae and no elaborate formal proofs, Devlin presents mathematics as a unique human endeavour that helps us to understand the universe and ourselves.