Monday, July 24, 2006

Nature's Numbers

Another one of the catch from British Library. A book by Ian Stewart on the mathematical secrets hidden in nature. Presents a very pleasant view of mathematics. But didn't impress me much with his overall message.

Excerpt

Mathematicians are forced to resort to written symbols and pictures to describe their world - even to each other. But the symbols are no more that world than musical notation is music.

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