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A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe

Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art, and Science

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A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe

By: Michael S. Schneider
Narrated by: Al Kessel
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Michael Schneider leads us on a spectacular, lavishly illustrated journey along the numbers one through 10 to explore the mathematical principles made visible in flowers, shells, crystals, plants, and the human body, expressed in the symbolic language of folk sayings and fairy tales, myth and religion, art and architecture.

This is a new view of mathematics, not the one we learned at school but a comprehensive guide to the patterns that recur through the universe and underlie human affairs.

A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe shows you:

  • Why cans, pizza, and manhole covers are round.
  • Why one and two weren't considered numbers by the ancient Greeks.
  • Why squares show up so often in goddess art and board games.
  • What property makes the spiral the most widespread shape in nature, from embryos and hair curls to hurricanes and galaxies.
  • How the human body shares the design of a bean plant and the solar system.
  • And much more.
©1994 Michael S. Schneider (P)2020 Tantor Astronomy Astronomy & Space Science History & Philosophy Mathematics Philosophy Physics Science Ancient History Fiction Sacred Geometry

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it's probably a very interesting book but unfortunately I cannot follow this past the Monad chapter as you need to see pictures.

good but need the book

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This was less an audiobook and more a demonstration of how wikiquote would sound if you rigged it up to a Vista era experiment in text-to-speech. The voice that reads it was dire, both crudely recorded, dull and hollow, to the extent that by the end of chapter one i had lost all interest in mathematics and the Universe, and my use of terms used to refer to two items taken together in sentences was no longer of a standard I would expect of a teacher.

If you have social problems interacting with others because you are a maths nerd and it puts people off, i imagine if you can get through this book you will sufficiently no longer care enough about the subject to have time for new pastimes and relationships. If you debating the pro- position 'This House believes that maths is boring...', playing this book for three minutes will serve as a perfect seconder for the motion.

The audio book left me with only one question...this book clearly has been bought by a lot of people. But I don't think I'll ever find out y.

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Yeah, well, i had a hard time initially with the narrator's strange sing along sentence structure and got caught in the sound of it rather than the content, but strangely enough i ended up getting into it! It seemed ok later on and didn't bother me at all.
I've had this book on my to read list for quite a while and a conversation kicked it into my awareness again so before i paid money to gift it ,i got it on audible. suffice to say i'm still listening to it, as well as reading and highlighting the copy i got (allegedly) for my daughter...Brilliant stuff.

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