Mathematics Without Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation (Science Essentials)

by Michael Harris (Author)

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  Paperback
  2017

  $23.68

  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.