Harris, Michael (Michael Howard) - Mathematics without Apologies : Portrait of a Problematic Vocation

Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, c2015. First printing. Hardcover. xxii, 438 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Very good condition/very good, Summary: 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.

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