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A New Year's Present from a Mathematician is an exciting book dedicated to two questions: What is it that mathematicians do? And who gets to be called a mathematician' and why? This book seeks to answer these questions through a series of stories ranging from the beginning of modern mathem...

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Main Author:	Lawrence, Snezana
Corporate Author:	Taylor & Francis
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Milton : CRC Press LLC, 2019.
Subjects:	MATHEMATICS / General MATHEMATICS / Applied MATHEMATICS / History & Philosophy Mathematics > History. Mathematicians > History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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