Mathematics without Apologies : : Portrait of a Problematic Vocation / / Michael Harris.
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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (464 p.) :; 16 halftones. 34 line illus. |
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