Mathematics without apologies
Subtitle: portrait of a problematic vocation
By: Michael Harris
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9780691154237
Subjects: Mathematics; Mathematicians
Description: What 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [327]-421) and indexes.

Text in English.