Circles Disturbed: The Interplay of Mathematics and Narrative

by Apostolos Doxiadis (Editor), Barry Mazur (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  2012

  $63.02

  Recalls the last words of the great Greek mathematician Archimedes before he was slain by a Roman soldier - Don't disturb my circles - words that seem to refer to two radically different concerns: that of the practical person living in the concrete world of reality, and that of the theoretician lost in a world of abstraction.