Keys to infinity
This illustrated text uses colourful examples to take readers on a stimulating mental journey through the frontiers of mathematical theory. For each example, the author provides the mathematical solution and also a computer program that can be used by the reader to investigate the problem.
xviii, 332 s. : illustrations
9780471118572, 0471118575
60966432
Partial table of contents:; Too Many Threes; Ladders to Heaven; Infinity Machines; Grid of the Gods; To the Valley of the Sea Horses; Infinite Chess; The Loom of Creation; Slides in Hell; Alien Abduction Algebra; Welcome to Worm World; Creating Life Using the Cancer Game; No Zeros Allowed; Infinite Star Chambers; Infinitely Exploding Circles; The Undulation of the Monks; The Loneliness of the Factorions; Escape from Fractalia; The Crying of Fractal Batrachion 1,489; Recursive Worlds; Chaos in Ontario; Cyclotron Puzzles; Vampire Numbers; Computers, Randomness, Mind, and Infinity; Appendices; Notes; Further Reading; Index.