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Mathematics without apologies [electronic resource] :portrait of a problematicvocation /

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
杜威分類號:	510.922
書名/作者:	Mathematics without apologies : portrait of a problematicvocation // Michael Harris
作者:	Harris, Michael,
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (xxii, 438 pages) : : illustrations
標題:	Mathematicians - Biography.
標題:	Mathematics - Social aspects
ISBN:	132258849X
ISBN:	1400852021
ISBN:	1400885523
ISBN:	9781322588490
ISBN:	9781400852024
ISBN:	9781400885527
書目註:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-421) and indexes
摘要、提要註:	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 offersan eclectic panorama of the lives and values and hopes andfears 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 wellas the thoughts and opinions of mathematicians from Archimedes and Omar Khayyam to such contemporary giants asAlexander 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 blamefor the 2008 financial crisis?
電子資源:	http://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/search/PUPB0005971.html

Mathematics without apologies [electronic resource] :portrait of a problematicvocation /
Harris, Michael,1954-

Mathematics without apologies portrait of a problematicvocation /[electronic resource] :Michael Harris - 1 online resource (xxii, 438 pages) :illustrations

Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-421) and indexes

Available to OhioLINK libraries

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 offersan eclectic panorama of the lives and values and hopes andfears 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 wellas the thoughts and opinions of mathematicians from Archimedes and Omar Khayyam to such contemporary giants asAlexander 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 blamefor the 2008 financial crisis?

ISBN: 132258849XSubjects--Topical Terms:

495331
Mathematicians
--Biography.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

344515
Electronic books

LC Class. No.: QA28 / .H37 2015eb

Dewey Class. No.: 510.922

Mathematics without apologies [electronic resource] :portrait of a problematicvocation /
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520 $a 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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