Сколько имеется простых чисел, не превышающих 20? Их восемь: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17 и 19. А сколько простых чисел, не превышающих миллиона? Миллиарда?...
What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, theoretical physicists are immune to mere trends, dogmatic beliefs, or flights of fancy? In fact, acclaimed...
A world-class mathematician and regular contributor to the New York Times hosts a delightful tour of the greatest ideas of math, revealing how it connects to literature, philosophy, law, medicine, art, business, even pop culture in ways we never...
The aim of this book is to describe a particular approach to cosmology, known as cosmic topology, that seeks to discover the overall size and shape of the universe, one of the biggest questions in cosmology for more than 25 centuries.
Along with...