Euclid in the Rainforest : Discovering Universal Truth in Logic and Math book-new-arrivals-2024-09-06 Margaret Atwood offers a biting

Margaret Atwood offers a biting satire that is as much a tale of terror as it is a warning

the color of impurity--and Deka knows she will face a consequence worse than death

His wife is growing more distant every day

But what the masterminds behind The Chain know is that parents will do anything for their children

driven and about to marry her lovely fiancé

Euclid in the Rainforest : Discovering Universal Truth in Logic and Math book-new-arrivals-2024-09-06 Margaret Atwood offers a bitingMazur (mathematics, Marlboro College), like many a mathematician before him, seeks the truth. How he goes about it is to examine three kinds of logic, those from the ancient Greeks, the strange logic of infinity, and the everyday, practical, plausible logic that basically drives most scientific inquiry today. In a series of 16 zippy chapters, Mazur looks into what logic actually is and how and when it shows up, the various configurations of infinity