A New Year's Present from a Mathematician.

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lawrence, Snezana
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Milton : CRC Press LLC, 2019.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of contents; List of figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Introduction; Twelve Drops of Mathematical Wisdom; Let's Create Our Map; Why the Desert?; Is Mathematics for You, or Are You for Mathematics?; Notes; Chapter 1 January; Mathematical Tribes; I Wrote You a Poem; Newton's Infinitely Important and Infinitely Small Quantities; The Search for the Philosopher's Stone; That Divine Clock; Friends in Need; Notes; Chapter 2 February; The Holy Month of Wisdom; Going Back to Thales; Isidore, the Milesian
  • Approximations in Mathematics, Architecture, and LifeNotes; Chapter 3 March; Hidden Domes and Heavenly Ideas; The Hanging Chain Curve; Wren and Other Curved Shapes; Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder
  • or in Mathematics?; Some Other Interesting Curves; Notes; Chapter 4 April; An Ideal and Emmy; Noether's Abstract Art of Mathematics; Noether Set Down the Law; What About the Ideal and Emmy?; Notes; Chapter 5 May; The Witch that Turned; Newton for, and by, Ladies; The Book; The Spectacle of Newtonianism; Agnesi and the Witch; And, By a Turn in the Storyline...; Notes; Chapter 6 June
  • Mathematics is Like... a Translucent Object Floating in SpaceSolids Named After a Greek Philosopher; The Structure of the Fifth Element; The Translucent Object Floating in Space; Notes; Chapter 7 July; The Power of (Mathematical) Books; The Mathematical Preface; Burning Books; And Then, Across the Pond; Notes; Chapter 8 August; Revolutionary Mathematics; The Real Birthday of Imaginary Bourbaki; The Modern Elements; The Eternal Appeal of Pythagoras; Dangerous Bends; Bourbaki's Theorem
  • En Fin; Notes; Chapter 9 September; The Mathematical Traveler is at Home Everywhere
  • The Number that Bears Your NameCan I Imagine an Even Bigger Number?; Big Numbers in Antiquity; Erdos and His Mathematical Friends' Numbers; A Famous Mistake and the Value of Big Numbers; Notes; Chapter 10 October; The Rounded Life and Music of Vibrating Strings; The Fourth Dimension; Thought Experiments; Some More Difficult Maths; A Full Circle Back to Le Rond and His Way of Finding Happiness; Notes; Chapter 11 November; We May be Friends, But I Still Have to Check Whether What You are Saying is True; New Worlds on the Horizon; The Boole Family and Their Friends; As Mathematical Families Go...
  • The Legacy for the FutureNotes; Chapter 12 December; What Can a Mathematician Give to Their Friend as a New Year's Present?; The Journey to Prague; The Witches and Dreams; Friendships that Last Centuries; Let's Pack our Present Neatly; Notes; Final Remarks; Bibliography; Index