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Lang Matl
Author Ekeland, I. (Ivar), 1944-

Title The best of all possible worlds : mathematics and destiny / Ivar Ekeland.

Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

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Location Call No. Status
 CCQ - Lusail Female Library  Q172    Available
 CCQ - Lusail Male Library  Q172    Available
Description 207 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-198) and index.
Contents Keeping the beat -- The birth of modern science -- The least action principle -- From computations to geometry -- Poincare⁺ѓ and beyond -- Pandora's box -- May the best one win -- The end of nature -- The common good --
Subject Science -- Mathematics.
Mathematical analysis.
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.
Human behavior.
Ethics.
ISBN 0226199940 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226199948