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
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780801890178; 9780801890185
Subjects: Mathematics -- Philosophy; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical; Mathematics -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mysticism, number, and geometry : an introduction to Pythagoreanism; title: The Elgin Marbles and Plato's geometric chemistry; title: An introduction to infinity; title: The flat Earth and the spherical sky; title: Theology, logic, and questions about angels; title: Time, infinity, and incommensurability; title: Medieval theories of vision and the representation of space; title: The shape of space and the fourth dimension; title: What is a number?; title: The dual nature of points and lines; title: Modern mathematical infinity; title: Elegance and truth.