A certain ambiguity : a mathematical novel / Gaurav Suri & Hartosh Singh Bal.
Material type: TextPublication details: Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock : Princeton University Press, 2007.Description: 304 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780691127095 (hbk.) :
- 813.6
- 510 22
- PS3619 .S87 2007
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 279).
While studying infinity at Stanford, Ravi Kapoor discovers that he is confronting the same mathematical and philosophical dilemmas that his mathematician grandfather faced, and that had landed him in jail. Together, the two men discover the power of what has long been considered the pinnacle of human certainty, Euclidean geometry.
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