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    Mathematics without apologies : portrait of a problematic vocation / Michael Harris.

    By: Harris, Michael, 1954- [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: xxii, 438 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780691154237; 0691154236Subject(s): Mathematics | Mathematicians | Mathematicians | Mathematics | Mathematiker | Denken | Matematik | Mathematicians | MathematicsDDC classification: 510 LOC classification: QA36 | .H37 2015
    Contents:
    Introduction : the veil -- How I acquired charisma -- Not merely good, true, and beautiful -- Megaloprepeia -- An automorphic reading of Thomas Pynchon's Against the day (interrupted by elliptical reflections on Mason & Dixon) -- Further investigations of the mind-body problem -- The habit of clinging to an ultimate ground -- The science of tricks -- A mathematical dream and its interpretation -- No apologies -- Afterword : The veil of Maya.
    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, assembling material from a startlingly diverse assortment of scholarly, journalistic, and pop culture sources.
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-421) and indexes.

    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.

    880-01 Introduction : the veil -- How I acquired charisma -- Not merely good, true, and beautiful -- Megaloprepeia -- An automorphic reading of Thomas Pynchon's Against the day (interrupted by elliptical reflections on Mason & Dixon) -- Further investigations of the mind-body problem -- The habit of clinging to an ultimate ground -- The science of tricks -- A mathematical dream and its interpretation -- No apologies -- Afterword : The veil of Maya.

    Text in English.

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