The mathematical experience. [The mathematical landscape; Unorthodoxies; The Chinese Remainder Theorem; Non-Cantorian Set Theory; The Euclid Myth; The Riemann Hypothesis; Why Should I Believe a Computer?; Four-Dimensional Intuition...]
by Davis, Philip J., 1923- ; Hersh, Reuben, 1927- [intro., Gian-Carlo Rota]
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1982, 1981., 1982. Poor. xix, 440 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 039532131X (pbk.) :; 9780395321317 (pbk.) ; LCCN: 81-20304 ; OCLC: 8194064 ; LC: QA8.4; Dewey: 510 ; Reprint. Originally published: Boston : Birkhäuser, 1981 ; "Two distinguished mathematicians...have written a perfectly marvelous book about the Queen of Sciences, from which one will get a real feeling for what mathematicians do and who they are. The exposition is clear and full of wit and humor..." --The New Yorker ; a very bad coffee stain has rendered this a READING COPY only. The condition is POOR
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- The mathematical experience. [The mathematical landscape; Unorthodoxies; The Chinese Remainder Theorem; Non-Cantorian Set Theory; The Euclid Myth; The Riemann Hypothesis; Why Should I Believe a Computer?; Four-Dimensional Intuition...]
- Author
- Davis, Philip J., 1923- ; Hersh, Reuben, 1927- [intro., Gian-Carlo Rota]
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor
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- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 039532131X
- ISBN 13
- 9780395321317
- Publisher
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1982, 1981.
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1982
- Keywords
- Mathematics history philosophy study teaching riemann euclid gauss fiat groups proof euler hadamard kepler formalism mao abstract aesthetic algebra algorithmic analysis analytic answer applied mathematics argument arithmetic axiom of choice Bibliography c
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