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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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Mathematics without apologies: portrait of a problematic vocation
2015, Princeton University Press
in English
0691154236 9780691154237
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [327]-421) and indexes.
Text in English.
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