438 pages
English language
Published June 11, 2015
Michael Harris: Mathematics without apologies (2015)
438 pages
English language
Published June 11, 2015
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.