The Mystery of the Aleph

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"Highly enjoyable."
— The New York Times
In the late nineteenth century, an extraordinary mathematician languished in an asylum. His life's work on ^Hhe continuum problem" would bring us closer than any mathematician before him in helping us understand the nature of infinity. This is the story of Georg Cantor.
Cantor's work, though brilliant, seemed to move in half-steps. The closer he came to the answers he sought, the further ^way they seemed. Eventually it drove him mad, as it h^d mathematicians before him.
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A respected mathematician himself, Amir D. Aczel follows Cantor's life and traces the roots of his deeply philosophical theories. From the Pythagoreans, the Greek cult of mathematics, to the mystical Jewish numerology found in the Kabbalah, THE MYSTERY OF THE ALEPH follows the search for an answer that may never truly be reached.
"An engaging, pellucid explanation of the mathematical understanding of infinity, enlivened by a historical gloss of the age-old affinities... Tovább

Fülszöveg

"Highly enjoyable."
— The New York Times
In the late nineteenth century, an extraordinary mathematician languished in an asylum. His life's work on ^Hhe continuum problem" would bring us closer than any mathematician before him in helping us understand the nature of infinity. This is the story of Georg Cantor.
Cantor's work, though brilliant, seemed to move in half-steps. The closer he came to the answers he sought, the further ^way they seemed. Eventually it drove him mad, as it h^d mathematicians before him.
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A respected mathematician himself, Amir D. Aczel follows Cantor's life and traces the roots of his deeply philosophical theories. From the Pythagoreans, the Greek cult of mathematics, to the mystical Jewish numerology found in the Kabbalah, THE MYSTERY OF THE ALEPH follows the search for an answer that may never truly be reached.
"An engaging, pellucid explanation of the mathematical understanding of infinity, enlivened by a historical gloss of the age-old affinities between religious and secular conceptions of the infinite."
—The Washington Post
"Compact and fascinating."
—Publishers Weekly
AMIR D. ACZEL, Ph.D., is the author of God's Equation: Einstein, Relativity and the Expanding Universe, as well as Fermat's Last Theorem and several other books. His work has been translated into nineteen languages. An internationally known mathematician, he lives in the Boston area. Vissza