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The Quantum Astrologer's Handbook A History of the Renaissance Mathematics That Birthed Imaginary Numbers, Probability, and the New Physics of the Universe

Hardcover • 2019 • English

The Quantum Astrologer's Handbook A History of the Renaissance Mathematics That Birthed Imaginary Numbers, Probability, and the New Physics of the Universe

By Michael Brooks

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About the book

This is a landmark in science writing that resurrects from the vaults of neglect the polymath Jerome Cardano, a Milanese of the sixteenth century. Who is Jerome Cardano? A gambler and blasphemer, inventor and schemer, plagued by demons and anxieties, astrologer to kings, emperors, and popes. This stubborn and unworldly man was the son of a lawyer and a brothel keeper, but also a gifted physician and the unacknowledged discoverer of the mathematical foundations of quantum physics. The Quantum As...Show more

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9781947534810

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Scribe Publications

Published year

2019

Language

English

Original title

The Quantum Astrologer's Handbook A History of the Renaissance Mathematics That Birthed Imaginary Numbers, Probability, and the New Physics of the Universe

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Hardcover

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