[Read and download] The Mathematical Experience: Study Edition
·•●- Philip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh, Elena Anne Marchisotto ·•●-
| #1445596 in Books | Birkhäuser Boston | 1995-10-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.21 x1.19 x6.14l,1.97 | File Name: 0817637397 | 488 pages |
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Can be read on multiple levels|By T. Gwinn|This is ultimately a book on the philosophy of mathematics. Rather than a tedious and dry slog though, the authors use a very broad array of mathematical vignettes - often only a page or two long - to probe into various aspects of mathematics and the activity of doing mathematics in order to illuminate to the reader the position they|.com |We tend to think of mathematics as uniquely rigorous, and of mathematicians as supremely smart. In his introduction to The Mathematical Experience, Gian-Carlo Rota notes that instead, "a mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analog
Winner of the 1983 National Book Award!
"…a perfectly marvelous book about the Queen of Sciences, from which one will get a real feeling for what mathematicians do and who they are. The exposition is clear and full of wit and humor..." - The New Yorker (1983 National Book Award edition)
Mathematics has been a human activity for thousands of years. Yet only a few people from the vast population of users are professional mathematicians, who...
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