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Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. The Language of Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible by Keith J. And this language is mathematics. More than just the study of numbers, mathemat “The great book of nature,” said Galileo, “can be read only by those who know the language in which it was written.
More than just the study of numbers, mathematics provides us with the eyes to recognize and describe the hidden patterns of life—patterns that exist in the physical, biological, and social worlds without, and the realm of ideas and thoughts within.
Taking the reader on a wondrous journey through the invisible universe that surrounds us—a universe made visible by mathematics—Devlin shows us what keeps a jumbo jet in the air, explains how we can see and hear a football game on TV, allows us to predict the weather, the behavior of the stock market, and the outcome of elections.
Iazyk ovens, telephone cables, children’s toys, pacemakers, automobiles, and computers—all operate on mathematical principles. Devlinn from a dry and esoteric subject, mathematics is a rich and living part of our culture. An exploration of an often woefully misunderstood subject, The Language of Mathematics celebrates the simplicity, the precision, the purity, and the elegance of mathematics. Paperbackpages. Published March 13th by Holt Paperbacks first published To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.
To ask other readers questions about The Language of Mathematicsplease sign up. Be the first to ask a question about The Language of Mathematics. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Probably the best book about mathematics I’ve read so far. I wouldn’t recommend it to people advanced in maths, but rather katematiky beginners.
It covers the evolution of mathematics throughout the ages in a beautiful abstract way. Definietly a must read for someone interested in anything even remotely related to mathematics. Some parts were incomprehensible or even tedious for me I’m looking at you, geometrybut overall it’s an amazing book. Jun 10, So Hakim rated it it was amazing Shelves: For some reason, mathematics has been thought simply as “science of numbers”. Or more generally, “that certain art about dealing with numbers”.
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This book, though, set out to give better definition. Right off the bat the author says it. Math is, in a way, “A Science of Pattern”. A particular study was classified as mathematics not so much because of what was studied but because of how it was studied—that is, the methodology used. It was only within the last thirty dfvlin or so that a For some reason, mathematics has been thought simply matsmatiky “science of numbers”. It was only within the last thirty years or so that a definition of mathematics emerged on which most mathematicians now agree: What the mathematician does is examine abstract ‘patterns’—numerical patterns, patterns of shape, patterns of motion, patterns dvlin behavior, voting patterns in a population, patterns of repeating chance events, and so on.
Those patterns can be either real or imagined, visual or mental, static or dynamic, qualitative or quantitative, purely utilitarian or of little more than matemaatiky interest. Indeed, if you have to read only one paragraph of this book, you may well just read that.
The following fevlin then clarify all kind of patterns described in math. From number theory, statistics, even the more ‘everyday’ things like Newtonian Physics — there are patterns in all of them.
Therefore, can be described with math. This is popular book, so pretty much all-prose. Recommended for readers not familiar with math but want to know more. The quote above is really the essence of the book. The rest is details. Aug 12, Alex Lee rated it really liked it Shelves: This is a fairly concise book.
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Devlin attempts to show us the construction of mathematics by its application and by demonstrating its conceptual genealogy. Of course, history of how a field grows is going to reveal its construction to us, although the language itself is at the highest level, hopelessly erudite. Devlin’s prose is concise, easy to read and yet sacrifices very little complexity for its clarity.
The task he has undertaken however is a difficult one. In striving to show us applicabili This is a fairly concise book. In striving to show us applicability, Delvin allows us glimpses of what math can do for us in the daily routines of the world in which we live.
Delvin doesn’t strive to make a philosophical statement about math, yet it seems that he wants to posit mathematic’s reality as being on par with the one in which we live.
To do this would require a more concise approach, directed by principles. The chapters in this book suggest that Devlin wishes to pursue such an endeavor and yet at times, he seems unable to present us little more than examples and applications. In fact, his last chapter, about the ‘Hidden Patterns of the Universe’ seems to attempt to encapsulate an argument that Mathematics is as real as the universe is; although Delvin never makes this remark. I don’t have a problem with his content, or how he talks about it.
I do have an issue with his organization. If anything, he matemahiky to want to make his argument without making it; to throw at us a barrage of ideas so that we submit. Unfortunately, in his presentation of this massive amount of data, he lacks any kind of metaphysical or over arching ideal by which we can grasp that mathematics is real.
Isn’t it his point that inductive examples, examples by experience there may be plenty of, but a real proof is one that rationally equates jazyi values so that their identity of relation is assured?
If we were to take mathematics as being as real as the universe, we would have to see a mathematical proof matenatiky it somehow. And so to that end, Devlin does not make this statement, although he seems to suggest it with many vague chapter titles and ruminations on how various patterns in the universe are at least explainable in mtematiky.
Devlin does not, however, explore that all patterns are explainable in mathematics, just that math is so applicable. Such an undertaking would be, in a sense, near impossible without a cogent understanding of exactly what a pattern is in the first place. Still, I did enjoy reading this book, and learned a few things in the process. If you think this is an interesting devlib, you may also enjoy reading this book. The book is an amazing journey through the history of mathematics that touches upon and connects discoveries and inventions in number theory, reasoning logiccalculus, shape geometriesposition topologysymmetry groupsprobability, and finally universe atomic particles, quantum theory, etc.
The historical view provides enough details of folks quite of few of them we studied in school and how they went about the inventions. The narrative connects various dots folks and theories The book is an amazing journey through the history of mathematics that touches upon and connects discoveries and inventions in number theory, reasoning logiccalculus, shape geometriesposition topologysymmetry groupsprobability, and finally universe atomic particles, quantum theory, etc.
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The narrative connects various dots folks and theories across the space-time continuum. Besides the deglin historical perspective and narrative, the exposition about the math is what makes the book special. Further, it is described in a way that one can connect the concepts to real world occurrences. In addition, the simplicity of exposition breaks down the concepts that I was constantly having “aha” moments because either I remembered something I had learnt in 12th grade iazyk I realized the essence of what I had learnt in 12th grade.
IIRC, this is a book I bought 6 years ago and only got to reading it now. And, I’m glad that I read it: E comunque alla fine, con la metrica di Minkovskij, le formule le ha messe: Sep 21, Rene Stein rated it liked it. Oct 02, Bob Young rated it liked it. I thought this was a good book but it was rather ‘hit and miss’ with me The author does a fairly good job of sticking to concepts I found his supposition that math is the study of patterns to be interesting and shying away from equations.
However, as a book on mathematics equations tend to be unavoidable and it is during the ‘equation parts’ of the book that I think it comes up short. With a background in engineering, I didn’t have much trouble f I thought this was a good book but it was rather ‘hit and miss’ with me With jayzk background in engineering, I didn’t have much trouble following the explanations but I’m not sure those without a reasonable math background would find it as accessible.
Additionally, some of the subjects covered in the book were more interesting to me than others Jun 08, Bryan rated it liked it.
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I liked this book. It was pretty much just what I was looking for when I picked it up. One of the reviews says it’s “the perfect book for people who have questions about math they’ve always wanted to ask but were afraid they wouldn’t understand the answers to” and I would definitely agree with this.
One of the things I liked best about this book was how well it showed the relationship between both the different fields of mathematics, and between mathematics and other fields. It seems like these r I liked this book. It seems like these relationships tend to be glossed over during a standard education, which is a shame, since the unity behind the different disciplines is one of the more interesting aspects of mathematics. Nov 24, Eric rated it it was amazing.
I really enjoyed this book. As a mathematician I was fairly familiar with many of the problems posed as classic milestones in mathematics achievement. It was cool to see that my undergraduate education was on the mark.
