Book:Antonio J. Durán/The Poetry of Numbers

Contents

 * Preface


 * Chapter 1. Where is the Beauty in Mathematics?


 * Chapter 2. Why is it Difficult to Appreciate the Beauty of Mathematics?


 * Chapter 3. The Abstract and the Emotional: Mathematics and the Human Condition


 * Chapter 4. Objective: The Beauty of Mathematical Reasoning


 * Chapter 5. History and Beauty


 * Bibliography


 * Index

Notable Quotes

 * Cantor visited Britain for the first time in September $1911$, having been invited to the celebrations of the $500$th anniversary of St Andrews University in Scotland.


 * -- Read by Prime.mover a mere $2$ days after acquiring a first edition of . Coincidence or what?