Mathematics without Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation - Michael Harris - Books - Princeton University Press - 9780691175836 - May 30, 2017
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Mathematics without Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation Revised edition

Michael Harris

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Mathematics without Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation Revised edition

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.

464 pages, 16 halftones. 34 line illus.

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Released May 30, 2017
ISBN13 9780691175836
Publishers Princeton University Press
Pages 464
Dimensions 235 × 156 × 31 mm   ·   676 g
Language English  
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