 SymmetrySTARTING from the somewhat vague notion of symmetry = harmony of proportions, these four lectures gradually develop first the geometric concept of symmetry in its several forms, as bilateral, translatory, rotational, ornamental and crystallographic symmetry, etc., and finally rise to the general idea underlying all these special forms, namely that... |  |  Bridges to Infinity: The Human Side of MathematicsMost of the reasons that I have written this book can be explained in terms of what reportedly happened one day in the eighteenth century when the great German mathematician Leonhard Euler confronted the eminent French scholar and atheist Denis Diderot with a spurious mathematical proof for the existence of God. Euler, it seems, accepted an... |  |  Set Theory (Studies in Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics)...provides a good introduction to relative consistence proofs in axiomatic set theory. It can be recommended as a graduate text on the subject. -- Zentralblatt für Mathematik
Paperback. Many branches of abstract mathematics have been affected by the modern independence proofs in set theory. This book provides... |