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100 1 $aHarris, Michael,$d1954-$eauthor.
245 10 $aMathematics without apologies :$bportrait of a problematic vocation /$cMichael Harris.
264 1 $aPrinceton, New Jersey :$bPrinceton University Press,$c[2015]
300 $axxii, 438 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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546 $aText in English.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [327]-421) and indexes.
520 $aWhat 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.
650 0 $aMathematics.
650 0 $aMathematicians.
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