Mathematics without apologies portrait of a problematic vocation
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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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press
cop. 2015
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