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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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9780691175836 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
510.922 |
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HAR |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Harris, Michael |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Mathematics without apologies : portrait of a problematic vocation |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Princeton University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2017 |
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New Jersey: |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xxii, 438 p. |
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ill. |
| Dimensions |
25 cm. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
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USD |
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22.95/ Rs. 1526.18 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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Drawing on his personal experiences and obsessions as well as the thoughts and opinions of mathematicians from Archimedes and Omar Khayyám to such contemporary giants as Alexander Grothendieck and Robert Langlands, Michael Harris reveals the charisma and romance of mathematics as well as its darker side. In this portrait of mathematics as a community united around a set of common intellectual, ethical, and existential challenges, he touches on a wide variety of questions, such as: Are mathematicians to blame for the 2008 financial crisis? How can we talk about the ideas we were born too soon to understand? And how should you react if you are asked to explain number theory at a dinner party?
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. |
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Mathematics |
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Mathematicians |
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Number Theory |
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Megaloprepeia |
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Mathematical Dream |
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Books |