What is a number?
Subtitle: mathematical concepts and their origins
By: Robert Tubbs.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801890178; 9780801890185
Subjects: Mathematics -- Philosophy.; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.; Mathematics -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Mysticism, number, and geometry : an introduction to Pythagoreanism; value: The Elgin Marbles and Plato's geometric chemistry; value: An introduction to infinity; value: The flat Earth and the spherical sky; value: Theology, logic, and questions about angels; value: Time, infinity, and incommensurability; value: Medieval theories of vision and the representation of space; value: The shape of space and the fourth dimension; value: What is a number?; value: The dual nature of points and lines; value: Modern mathematical infinity; value: Elegance and truth.