In this book, Marcel Danesi presents a historical overview of the ten greatest achievements in mathematics, and dynamically explores their importance and effects on our daily lives.
1 The Pythagorean Theorem: The Birth of Mathematics; 2 Prime Numbers: The DNA of Mathematics; 3 Zero: Place-Holder and Peculiar Number; 4 Pi: A Ubiquitous and Strange Number; 5 Exponents: Notation and Discovery; 6 e: A Very Special Number; 7 i: Imaginary Numbers; 8 Infinity: A Counterintuitive and Paradoxical Idea; 9 Decidability: The Foundations of Mathematics; 10 The Algorithm: Mathematics and Computers
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