Like many of you reading this book, I have been a lifelong fan of science fiction movies, books, and television shows. This is not very unusual for a math and computer geek, since there has always been a strong correlation between interest in mathematics, space travel, and science fiction. To some extent, this is inherent in the topic: after all, our space program and our knowledge of astrophysics, astronomy, and cosmology are heavily dependent on some of our most advanced mathematical techniques. But I think it goes beyond this, with some fundamental similarity between the way we stretch our ...
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Erik SeligmanMath Mutation Classics10.1007/978-1-4842-1892-1_55. Understanding the Universe
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