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By : David Nirenberg
Book Synopsis :
Ranging from math to literature to philosophy, Uncountable explains how numbers triumphed as the basis of knowledge?and compromise our sense of humanity. Our knowledge of mathematics has structured much of what we think we know about ourselves as individuals and communities, shaping our psychologies, sociologies, and economies. In pursuit of a more predictable and more controllable cosmos, we have extended mathematical insights and methods to more and more aspects of the world. Today those powers are greater than ever, as computation is applied to virtually every aspect of human activity. Yet, in the process, are we losing sight of the human? When we apply mathematics so broadly, what do we gain and what do we lose, and at what risk to humanity? These are the questions that David and Ricardo L. Nirenberg ask in Uncountable, a provocative account of how numerical relations became the cornerstone of human claims to knowledge, truth, and certainty. There is a limit to these number-based .
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Tittle : Uncountable: A Philosophical History of Number and Humanity from Antiquity to the Present
Author : David Nirenberg
Pages : 432 pages
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
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ISBN-10 : 022664698X
ISBN-13 : 9780226646985
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