Mathematics without Apologies

Autor*innen

• Michael Harris

Parameter

• 438 Seiten
• 16 Lesestunden

• Biografien & Memoiren
• Geschichte
• Mathematik
• Sachliteratur
• Sozialwissenschaften

Mehr zum Buch

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.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Einband: Hardcover