Mathematics without apologies

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.

שנה

2015

שפה

English

הוצאה

Princeton University Press

מהדורות

1

עמודים

438

ISBN

9780691154237

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata