伊莱·马奥尔是以色列人，他于1969年从以色列理工学院获得博士学位。长期以来，他对数学和艺术之间的关系有着沈厚的兴趣。他在美国、英国和以色列的期刊上发表过大量论文，所涉及的领域有应用数学、数学教育和数学史。他还积极投身于阐释科学的写作，并因这方面的著作而数次获关奖。他的文章“音乐有什么样的数学特性？”曾在1979年被国家教学教师委员会评选为数学应用最佳文章全国竞赛一等奖。马奥尔博士从1981年以来一直在美国数学学会访问讲师和顾问计划的成员。他在国内外的专业会议上作过多次讲演，而且还就科学和教育问题对一般公众作过多次讲演。

In this title, Eli Maor examines the role of infinity in mathematics and geometry and its cultural impact on the arts and sciences. He evokes the profound intellectual impact the infinite has exercised on the human mind - from the 'horror infiniti' of the Greeks to the works of M.C. Escher; from the ornamental designs of the Moslems, to the sage Giordano Bruno, whose belief in ...(展开全部)

In 1986, three visionaries - John Lasseter, Ed Catmull, and Steve Jobs - united to form Pixar Animation Studios. Combining their respective abilities in animation, computer graphics, and entrepreneurship, their goal was to create the very first feature length computer animated film. Against all odds and overcoming myriad obstacles, the tiny studio created "Toy Story" and single...(展开全部)

In "Infinity and the Mind", Rudy Rucker leads an excursion to that stretch of the universe he calls the "Mindscape," where he explores infinity in all its forms: potential and actual, mathematical and physical, theological and mundane. Rucker acquaints us with Godel's rotating universe, in which it is theoretically possible to travel into the past, and explains an interpretatio...(展开全部)

Rudy Rucker is Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at San Jose State University and the author of numerous books on mathematics and philosophy, including Artificial Life Lab, Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality, and The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of Higher Universes. Among his works of science fiction are White Light, Software, and Space-Time Donu...(展开全部)

Rudy Rucker is Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at San Jose State University and the author of numerous books on mathematics and philosophy, including Artificial Life Lab, Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality, and The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of Higher Universes. Among his works of science fiction are White Light, Software, and Space-Time Donu...(展开全部)

◎ 著者简介 撒穆尔•伊诺克•斯通普夫（Samuel Enoch Stumpf）是范德堡大学的哲学荣休教授和法学荣休教授，他于1998年去世，享年80岁。他于加州大学洛杉矶分校取得商业和金融专业的理学学士学位，于安德沃牛顿神学院取得神学学士学位，于芝加哥大学取得哲学专业的哲学博士学位。他于1948年入职范德堡，并于1952年至1967年担任哲学系主任。在康奈尔学院任职校长五年后，斯通普夫教授回到了范德堡，直到1984年退休。 詹姆斯•菲泽（James Fieser）是田纳西大学马丁分校的哲学教授。他于伯里亚学院取得了文学学士学位，于普渡大学取得了哲学专业的硕士和博士学位。他独撰、合著了十本教科书，编注了十卷本《对休谟的早期回应》和五卷本《苏格兰常识哲学》。他是互联网哲学百科全书网站（www.iep.utm.edu）的创办者和总编辑。他的个人网站可以在...(展开全部)

This comprehensive, historically organized introduction to philosophy communicates the richness of the discipline and provides the student with a working knowledge of the development of Western philosophy. With a lively and approachable style it covers the principal contributions of Western civilization's most influential philosophers. It provides ample detail without complicat...(展开全部)

Whether pondering why some numbers are uncountable, or why infinity + 1 is not the same as 1 + infinity, we've all asked the same question: What is infinity? In Beyond Infinity, Eugenia Cheng takes us on a staggering journey from elemental math to its loftiest abstractions. Along the way she considers how to use a chessboard to plan a worldwide dinner party, how to make a chick...(展开全部)

In this witty, engaging and challenging book, Carolyn Steedman has produced a highly original and sometimes irreverent investigation into the development of modern history writing. Dust is about the practice and writing of history. Dust considers the immutable, stubborn set of beliefs about the material world, past and present, inherited from the nineteenth century, with which ...(展开全部)