La Fouly

"This is a modern novel about mathematics. A teenager and an old university professor meet in the remote village La Fouly, on Val Ferret, in the Swiss Alps. They go hiking in the surrounding mountains. During this period, they talk, informally, about the content of different chapters from old and recent domains of mathematics (Algebra, Calculus, Set theory, Geometry, Functional Analysis, Topology, Number theory, Optimization, Linear programming, Simulation, Probability theory, Statistics, Information theory, Cryptography, Game theory, Decision theory, System theory) and about the lives of some important contributors to the development of these domains (Newton, Leibniz, Gauss, Euler, Fermat, Descartes, Hilbert, Abel, Galois, Riemann, Ramanujan, Bolyai, Boole, Cantor, Bourbaki, Godel, Erdos, Grothendieck, von Neumann, Shannon)."--Pub website.

Year

2005

Language

English

Publisher

Advanced Knowledge International

Editions

1

Pages

353

ISBN

9780975215012

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