Mathematics Without Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation

Author/Contributor(s):	Harris, Michael
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Date:	01/18/2015
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

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.