Mathematics without apologies
portrait of a problematic vocation
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Word Count
109,500 words, Guess
Page Count
438 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivemathematicswitho0000harr
- ISBN-100691154236
- ISBN-139780691154237
- Library of Congress Control Number2014953422
- OCLC Control Number900911665
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780691154237
- Open LibraryOL27177145M
Classifications
- DDC510
- LCCQA36 .H37 2015
- LCCQA21
Description
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.
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