Ian Stewart
Contributor
LOCATION: Coventry, United Kingdom
Professor of mathematics at the University of Warwick, England. Author of Concepts of Modern Mathematics, Does God Play Dice, Flatterland, From Here to Infinity, and Nature's Numbers.
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Number symbolism, cultural associations—including religious, philosophical, and aesthetic—with various numbers. Humanity has had a love-hate relationship with numbers from the earliest times. Bones dating from perhaps 30,000 years ago show scratch marks that possibly represent the phases of the…
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