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· 제목 : Unity and Disunity and Other Mathematical Essays (Paperback)
· 분류 : 외국도서 > 과학/수학/생태 > 수학 > 수학 에세이
· ISBN : 9781470420239
· 쪽수 : 149쪽
· 출판일 : 2015-08-12
· 분류 : 외국도서 > 과학/수학/생태 > 수학 > 수학 에세이
· ISBN : 9781470420239
· 쪽수 : 149쪽
· 출판일 : 2015-08-12
목차
- The unity and disunity of mathematics
- Evidence in mathematics
- Out of what stuff do we make mathematics?
- Computational experiences in the pre-electronic days
- Spengler's mathematics considered and a Phoenix reborn?
- Can the mathematical/physical notions of entropy be usefully imported into the social sphere?
- The decline, fall, and current resurgence of visual geometry: Mathematics as a multisemiotic enterprise
- The unicorn or mathematical ontology
- Mathematics, politics, and law
- The two culture controversy: A mathematician's view a half century later
- Four literary men comment on mathematics: Henry James, George Santayana, Paul Valéry, and Isaiah Berlin
- The media and mathematics look at each other
- New winds blowing in applied mathematics
