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Whitehead: An Introduction to Mathematics

A short book on why mathematics is about patterns, from variables and functions to the series behind waves.

✎ Being written
Volume
56 of the 1990 set
Author
Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947)
Work
An Introduction to Mathematics 1911

Ideas: Number Mathematics as nature's language

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