by Robert Kaplan, Ellen Kaplan · Oxford Univ Pr · tapa dura · ISBN 9780195147438
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In this book, Robert Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan take us on a tour of the world of mathematics, taking infinity as a touchstone for understanding mathematical thinking. From Pythagoras to Georg Cantor, the authors explore how the attempt to grasp the ungraspable embodies the essence of mathematics. Through character studies of great mathematicians, the Kaplans illustrate the opposed yet intertwined modes of mathematical thinking: the intuitionist notion that we discover mathematical truth as it exists, and the formalist belief that mathematics is true because we invent consistent rules for it.
