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Aczel, Amir D.

Descartes' secret notebook : a true tale of mathematics, mysticism, and the quest to understand the universe / Amir D. Aczel. - New York : Broadway Books, 2005. - xiv, 273 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [258]-264) and index.

0767920341

2005045722


Descartes, René, 1596-1650 --Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
Descartes, René, 1596-1650 --Knowledge--Mathematics.
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716 --Manuscripts.


Mathematics--Philosophy--History--17th century.

QA29.D55 / A25 2005

510/.1