The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men: A Cultural History

Author(s): Paolo Zellini

Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs

Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? Have we invented numbers or do they truly exist? What sort of reality should we attribute to them? Mathematics has always been a way of understanding and ordering the world: from sacred ancient texts and pre-Socratic philosophers to twentieth-century logicians such as Russell and Frege and beyond.


In this masterful, elegant book, mathematician and philosopher Paolo Zellini offers a brief cultural and intellectual history of mathematics, from ancient Greece to India to our contemporary obsession with algorithms, showing how mathematical thinking is inextricably linked with philosophical, existential and religious questions--and indeed with our cosmic understanding of the world.

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General Fields

  • : 9780241312179
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Allen Lane
  • : 0.56699
  • : December 2019
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  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Paolo Zellini
  • : Hardback
  • : 1
  • : English
  • : 510.1
  • : 240