Author: Leo Zippin
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: infinity, uses
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2000-02-20
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 0486411788
ISBN-13: 9780486411781

This intriguing, accessible work leads readers to an excellent grasp of the fundamental notions of infinity used in the calculus and in virtually all other mathematical disciplines. Designed to make minimal demands on readers’ mathematical abilities, this perceptive volume employs an intuitive and descriptive approach that will appeal to students, teachers, and the mathematically inclined. Each chapter’s teachings are supplemented by challenging problems, with solutions at the end of the book. 83 text figures. 1962 ed.

Author: Ian Stewart
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: infinity
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1996-05-23
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0192832026
ISBN-13: 9780192832023

In this retitled and revised edition of The Problems of Mathematics, renowned mathematician Ian Stewart gives math buffs and non-technical readers--as well as students of the subject--the perfect guide to today’s mathematics. This challenging and fascinating book includes three new chapters that cover the most recent developments in the mathematics field, including one on Kepler’s sphere-packing problem, to which a solution has been at last announced after a wait of 380 years. Stewart, a particularly gifted mathematician and writer, shows us not only that math can be explained i

Author: K. E. Perrott
Publisher: BookPal
Keywords: infinity
Number of Pages: 492
Published: 2009-01-01
List price: $31.96
ISBN-10: 1921300884
ISBN-13: 9781921300882

Sci-Fi Novel of a Professor Fox Upton’s quest to save the world. She is recruited to become the twelfth and final member of the SAFARI team. This covert scientific operation, created to better human life and preserve humanity from the threat of religious fanatics and terrorists intent on destruction, is part of the secret organisation of ’Infinity’. With never-ending funds and some of the greatest minds in the world, Infinity is responsible for countless scientific and medical discoveries as well as a life-saving anonymous source of intelligence to world secuirty

Author: Lillian R. Lieber
Publisher: Paul Dry Books
Keywords: infinity
Number of Pages: 359
Published: 2007-11-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1589880366
ISBN-13: 9781589880368

“Another excellent book for the lay reader of mathematics . . . In explaining [infinity], the author introduces the reader to a good many other mathematical terms and concepts that seem unintelligible in a formal text but are much less formidable when presented in the author’s individual and very readable style.”—Library Journal “The interpolations tying mathematics into human life and thought are brilliantly clear.”—Booklist “Mrs. Lieber, in this text illustrated by her husband, Hugh Gray Lieber, has tackled the formidable task of explaining infinity in simple terms, in short

Author: Gregory Benford
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Keywords: infinity
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2006-03-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0446611573
ISBN-13: 9780446611572

Set a billion years into the future, this novel by the multiple award-winning author of "The Martian Race" involves the idea of a Library of Life, which preserves earlier life forms.

Author: N.Ya. Vilenkin
Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston
Keywords: infinity, search
Number of Pages: 145
Published: 1995-08-11
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0817638199
ISBN-13: 9780817638191

The concept of infinity has been for hundreds of years one of the most fascinating and elusive ideas to tantalize the minds of scholars and lay people alike. The theory of infinite sets lies at the heart of much of mathematics, yet is has produced a series of paradoxes that have led many scholars to doubt the soundness of it foundations. The author of this book presents a popular-level account of the roads followed by human thought in attempts to understand the idea of the infinite in mathematics and physics. In doing so, he brings to the general reader a deep insight into the nature of the pr

Author: Ryan Adam
Publisher: Akashic Book
Keywords: blues, infinity
Number of Pages: 290
Published: 2009-04-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1933354747
ISBN-13: 9781933354743

"Ryan Adams, one of America’s most consistently interesting singer/songwriters, has written a passionate, arresting, and entertaining book of verse. Fans are going to love it, and newcomers will be pleased and startled by his intensity and originality. The images are vivid and the voice is honest and powerful." --Stephen King, author of Duma Key "Ryan Adams writes with equal parts precision and recklessness; the blood he draws from the text is easily as unnerving as its unapologetic tenderness. He is proof that poetry will find its writer." --Mary-Louise Parker, actress "Infinity Blues i