The Mathematician's Brain: A Personal Tour Through the Essentials of Mathematics and Some of the Great Minds Behind Them
by:
David Ruelle (author)
David Ruelle has written an entertaining and thoughtful book on human theorizing in that most abstract science, mathematics. Yet its content has ramifications that extend well into other thought processes.—Stephen Smale, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago"Fascinating and quite...
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David Ruelle has written an entertaining and thoughtful book on human theorizing in that most abstract science, mathematics. Yet its content has ramifications that extend well into other thought processes.—Stephen Smale, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago"Fascinating and quite eclectic. Ruelle has a pragmatic approach to discussing philosophical and psychological questions. He is equally pragmatic with regard to ethical and political issues involved in the professional world of the mathematician. As Ruelle repeatedly says, mathematics is a human activity."—William Messing, University of Minnesota
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780691129822 (0691129827)
Publish date: August 5th 2007
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
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