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A strange wilderness
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Amir D. Aczel |
"Bestselling popular science author Amir Aczel selects the most fascinating individuals and stories in the history of mathematics, presenting a colorful narrative that explores the quirky personaliti… |
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Henri Poincaré
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Jeremy J. Gray |
"Henri Poincaré (1854-1912) was not just one of the most inventive, versatile, and productive mathematicians of all time--he was also a leading physicist who almost won a Nobel Prize for physics and … |
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Five Equations That Changed the World
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Michael Guillen |
Robert Frost once suggested that a poem is a pithy form of expression that, by definition, can never be translated accurately. The same can be said about mathematics: The best way to understand and a… |
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Trust in Numbers
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Theodore M. Porter |
This investigation of the overwhelming appeal of quantification in the modern world discusses the development of cultural meanings of objectivity over two centuries. How are we to account for the cur… |
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