Mathematics without Apologies : Portrait of a Problematic Vocation /

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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 materia...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Harris, Michael (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2017]
Temas:
Mathematicians > Attitudes.
Mathematics > Research.
MATHEMATICS / General.
A Mathematician's Apology.
Against the Day.
Alexander Grothendieck.
Archimedes.
Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture.
David Hilbert.
Drinfel'd upper half-spaces.
Edward Frenkel.
G. H. Hardy.
Herbert Mehrtens.
Joseph Liouville.
Omar Khayyám.
Paul Mogré.
Rites of Love and Math.
Robert Langlands.
Thomas Pynchon.
charisma.
cohomology.
congruences.
dinner party.
elliptic curves.
excellence.
films.
finance mathematics.
mathematical concepts.
mathematical equations.
mathematical finance.
mathematical modeling.
mathematical problems.
mathematicians.
mathematics.
metaphorical veil.
mind-body problem.
morality.
number theory.
order.
professional autonomy.
randomness.
reality.
transcendental numbers.
tricks.
tricksters.
unramified coverings.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface to the Paperback Edition
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: The Veil
  • Chapter 2. How I Acquired Charisma
  • Chapter 3. Not Merely Good, True, and Beautiful
  • Chapter 4. Megaloprepeia
  • Chapter 5. An Automorphic Reading of Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day (Interrupted by Elliptical Reflections on Mason & Dixon)
  • Part II
  • Chapter 6. Further Investigations of the Mind-Body Problem
  • Chapter 7. The Habit of Clinging to an Ultimate Ground
  • Chapter 8. The Science of Tricks
  • Chapter 9. A Mathematical Dream and Its Interpretation
  • Chapter 10. No Apologies
  • Afterword. The Veil of Maya
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Mathematicians
  • Subject Index

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