Il mistero dell'alef. La ricerca dell'infinito tra matematica e misticismo
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L'infinito, un concetto sfuggente e misterioso, ha affascinato intere generazioni di matematici e teologi: dai mistici ebrei, che crearono complessi sistemi di numeri per rappresentare la pura essenza dell'infinito, a scienziati come Galileo Galilei e Georg Cantor, che crearono nell'infinito dei numeri e dello spazio la chiave dell'universo. Nel "Mistero dell'alef" Amir Aczel ha ricostruito la storia di questa entusiasmante ricerca attraverso i secoli toccando gli argomenti più diversi. "Il mistero dell'alef" mostra come spesso l'idea stessa di infinito e il suo significato in matematica siano collegati al pensiero religioso e alla ricerca del divino, come quella operata dallo stesso Cantor.
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- Pagine: 220
- Data di uscita: 05-03-2015
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The book covers the idealized history of mathematical ideas related to infinity, while telling in parallel the biographies of the various people who were a part of it. More than one of the stories fall into the "tortured genius versus crusty establishment" trope. The book breezes through fairly adva Leggi tutto
A wonderful history of mankind's grappling with the concept of infinity where mathematics, philosophy and religion intersect in amazing ways. This is a relatively short book but it is packed with fascinating stories about ancient Greek philosophers, kabalists, Galileo, Descartes, Georg Cantor, Kurt
This book was DEEP, a little above my paygrade! A fascinating premise that math and religion can explore the same topics (e.g. the infinity of God also contains nothingness vs. Set theory/math: an infinite set also contains the empty set.). I really enjoyed the brief side story, synopsis of Gödel's Leggi tutto
Although I am no mathematician, I enjoyed this book. Of course, there were things I didn't understand, but Amir D Aczel avoided shoving our faces into strings of equations. The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity is one of those books that show us that not ev Leggi tutto
This wouldnt seem to be a book that would go under cross-cultural spirituality. It is. It depends on how much you are trying to understand. Ultimately, deep study takes you to almost every discipline and science, hard and soft.
This book feels cut from the same mold as Darren Aronofsky's movie "Pi" though being more of a history of the mathematical pursuit of infinity than a story of one just one person's encounter with it. The author discusses the specific mystery cults and important researchers from the Pythagoras to win Leggi tutto
About the mathematical development of infinity. A few irrelevant bits about the Kabbalah jammed in, sillyness. Otherwise mildly interesting- Then stupidly stopped mid-stream after the end of the work of Kanter. Overall a stupid book written on behalf of a publisher
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