Mathematics Without Apologies

Portrait of a Problematic Vocation

Szerző: Michael Harris

Nyelv:

Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: Princeton University Press

Elérhetőség: Utánnyomás

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11 230 Ft

What do pure mathematicians do, and why do they do it? Looking beyond the conventional answers--for...

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Szerző

Michael Harris

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2015

oldal

480

EAN

9780691154237

ISBN

0691154236

Enbook ID

04641943

Kiadó

Princeton University Press

Súly

972

Méretek

152 x 229 x 44

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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 scholarly, journalistic, and pop culture sources. Drawing on his personal experiences and obsessions as well as the thoughts and opinions of mathematicians from Archimedes and Omar Khayyam to such contemporary giants as Alexander Grothendieck and Robert Langlands, Michael Harris reveals the charisma and romance of mathematics as well as its darker side. In this portrait of mathematics as a community united around a set of common intellectual, ethical, and existential challenges, he touches on a wide variety of questions, such as: Are mathematicians to blame for the 2008 financial crisis? How can we talk about the ideas we were born too soon to understand? And how should you react if you are asked to explain number theory at a dinner party? Disarmingly candid, relentlessly intelligent, and richly entertaining, Mathematics without Apologies takes readers on an unapologetic guided tour of the mathematical life, from the philosophy and sociology of mathematics to its reflections in film and popular music, with detours through the mathematical and mystical traditions of Russia, India, medieval Islam, the Bronx, and beyond.

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