The science of patterns. The search for order in life, mind and the universe
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
zbMATH Open document ID: 1077.00001
publication date: 2002-04-14T00:00:00Z
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 00A05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 00A06
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 00A99
zbMATH DE Number: 1727515
zbMATH Keywords: general mathematics
zbMATH Keywords: mathematics for non-mathematicians
zbMATH Keywords: mathematical patterns
zbMATH Keywords: basic mathematical structures
author: Keith Devlin
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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title: The science of patterns. The search for order in life, mind and the universe
review text: [For a review of the original see Zbl 0919.00001.]NEWLINENEWLINEIt is a very welcome fact that this nice book is also available in German because it presents core parts of modern mathematics in a manner which is accessible to a broad educated public.NEWLINENEWLINEThe translation into German is well made, and the translator has fully mastered the German mathematical terminology. Unfortunately, to some extent, it is nothing but a translation: so for the largest known Mersenne prime the value of 1994 is given. Here and at a few other places some more recent information had been welcome. Also some of the pictures appear in an unfortunately small size, caused by the pocket size of the book. But both these points are not really important. The book remains a very nice one also with these small inconveniencies.
reviewed by: Siegfried J. Gottwald
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1727515