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Is God a Mathematician?
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Author
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Mario Livio.
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Publisher
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S&S/BOMC
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Format
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hardcover
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Product Dimensions
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9.5
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6.25
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ISBN
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9780743294058
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Pages/Publication Date
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308/2009
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Daedalus Item Code
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21284
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Description
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"Philosophers and mathematicians have been arguing for centuries over whether math is a system that humans invented or a cosmic—possibly divine—order that we simply discovered. That's the fundamental question Mario Livio probes in his engrossing book.... Livio, an astrophysicist at the Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, explains the invention-vs.-discovery debate largely through the work and personalities of great figures in math history, from Pythagoras and Plato to Isaac Newton, Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein. At times, Livio's theorems, proofs and conundrums may be challenging for readers who struggled through algebra, but he makes most of this material not only comprehensible but downright intriguing."—Washington Post
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