The Waltz of Reason

"A mind-bending jaunt ... that makes clear in fascinating detail how math is more than a sum of its parts" ( Publishers Weekly ) “Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here,” Plato warned would-be philosophers. Mathematician Karl Sigmund agrees. In The Waltz of Reason , he shows how mathematics and philosophy together have shaped our understanding of space, chance, logic, cooperation, voting, and the social contract. Sigmund shows how game theory is integral to moral philosophy, how statistics s