Mathematics Without Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Michael Harris, Michael Harris (Preface by)Series:Science EssentialsPublish date:2017-05-30Pages:464
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691175836ISBN-10:691175837UPC:9780691175836Book Category:Mathematics, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:History & Philosophy, Essays, Personal MemoirsSize:9.10 x 6.00 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.4506Product ID:SCY3F0R1B2
An insightful reflection on the mathematical soul
What do pure mathematicians do, and why do they do it? Looking beyond the conventional answers--for the sake of truth, beauty, and practical applications--this book offers an eclectic panorama of the lives and values and hopes and fears of mathematicians in the twenty-first century, assembling material from a startlingly diverse assortment of...Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691175836ISBN-10:691175837UPC:9780691175836Book Category:Mathematics, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:History & Philosophy, Essays, Personal MemoirsSize:9.10 x 6.00 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.4506Product ID:SCY3F0R1B2
Michael Harris is professor of mathematics at the Université Paris Diderot and Columbia University. He is the author or coauthor of more than eighty mathematical books and articles, and has received a number of prizes, including the Clay Research Award, which he shared in 2007 with Richard Taylor.
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