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 :
Princeton University Press,
[2015]
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
