Author: Andre Weil
Publisher: Birkhäuser
ISBN: 3034886349
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
From reviews: "Extremely readable... rare testimony of a period of the history of 20th century mathematics. Includes very interesting recollections on the author's participation in the formation of the Bourbaki Group, tells of his meetings and conversations with leading mathematicians, reflects his views on mathematics. The book describes an extraordinary career of an exceptional man and mathematicians. Strongly recommended to specialists as well as to the general public." --EMS Newsletter (1992)
The Apprenticeship of a Mathematician
Author: Andre Weil
Publisher: Birkhäuser
ISBN: 3034886349
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
From reviews: "Extremely readable... rare testimony of a period of the history of 20th century mathematics. Includes very interesting recollections on the author's participation in the formation of the Bourbaki Group, tells of his meetings and conversations with leading mathematicians, reflects his views on mathematics. The book describes an extraordinary career of an exceptional man and mathematicians. Strongly recommended to specialists as well as to the general public." --EMS Newsletter (1992)
Publisher: Birkhäuser
ISBN: 3034886349
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
From reviews: "Extremely readable... rare testimony of a period of the history of 20th century mathematics. Includes very interesting recollections on the author's participation in the formation of the Bourbaki Group, tells of his meetings and conversations with leading mathematicians, reflects his views on mathematics. The book describes an extraordinary career of an exceptional man and mathematicians. Strongly recommended to specialists as well as to the general public." --EMS Newsletter (1992)
The Weil Conjectures
Author: Karen Olsson
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374719632
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
A New York Times Editors' Pick and Paris Review Staff Pick "A wonderful book." --Patti Smith "I was riveted. Olsson is evocative on curiosity as an appetite of the mind, on the pleasure of glutting oneself on knowledge." --Parul Sehgal, The New York Times An eloquent blend of memoir and biography exploring the Weil siblings, math, and creative inspiration Karen Olsson’s stirring and unusual third book, The Weil Conjectures, tells the story of the brilliant Weil siblings—Simone, a philosopher, mystic, and social activist, and André, an influential mathematician—while also recalling the years Olsson spent studying math. As she delves into the lives of these two singular French thinkers, she grapples with their intellectual obsessions and rekindles one of her own. For Olsson, as a math major in college and a writer now, it’s the odd detours that lead to discovery, to moments of insight. Thus The Weil Conjectures—an elegant blend of biography and memoir and a meditation on the creative life. Personal, revealing, and approachable, The Weil Conjectures eloquently explores math as it relates to intellectual history, and shows how sometimes the most inexplicable pursuits turn out to be the most rewarding.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374719632
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
A New York Times Editors' Pick and Paris Review Staff Pick "A wonderful book." --Patti Smith "I was riveted. Olsson is evocative on curiosity as an appetite of the mind, on the pleasure of glutting oneself on knowledge." --Parul Sehgal, The New York Times An eloquent blend of memoir and biography exploring the Weil siblings, math, and creative inspiration Karen Olsson’s stirring and unusual third book, The Weil Conjectures, tells the story of the brilliant Weil siblings—Simone, a philosopher, mystic, and social activist, and André, an influential mathematician—while also recalling the years Olsson spent studying math. As she delves into the lives of these two singular French thinkers, she grapples with their intellectual obsessions and rekindles one of her own. For Olsson, as a math major in college and a writer now, it’s the odd detours that lead to discovery, to moments of insight. Thus The Weil Conjectures—an elegant blend of biography and memoir and a meditation on the creative life. Personal, revealing, and approachable, The Weil Conjectures eloquently explores math as it relates to intellectual history, and shows how sometimes the most inexplicable pursuits turn out to be the most rewarding.
Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry
Author: Gregory G. Smith
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1493974866
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
This volume consolidates selected articles from the 2016 Apprenticeship Program at the Fields Institute, part of the larger program on Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry that ran from July through December of 2016. Written primarily by junior mathematicians, the articles cover a range of topics in combinatorial algebraic geometry including curves, surfaces, Grassmannians, convexity, abelian varieties, and moduli spaces. This book bridges the gap between graduate courses and cutting-edge research by connecting historical sources, computation, explicit examples, and new results.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1493974866
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
This volume consolidates selected articles from the 2016 Apprenticeship Program at the Fields Institute, part of the larger program on Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry that ran from July through December of 2016. Written primarily by junior mathematicians, the articles cover a range of topics in combinatorial algebraic geometry including curves, surfaces, Grassmannians, convexity, abelian varieties, and moduli spaces. This book bridges the gap between graduate courses and cutting-edge research by connecting historical sources, computation, explicit examples, and new results.
The Mathematician's Apprenticeship
Author: Mordechai Feingold
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521251334
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521251334
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The Mathemagician's Apprentice
Author: Brian Boyd
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781902804040
Category : Multiplication
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
This story begins with Cozmo, the magician's apprentice, being set a task which involved exercising his mathematical skills. But like all good apprentices, he winds up in trouble. And this is where the adventure begins for the reader.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781902804040
Category : Multiplication
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
This story begins with Cozmo, the magician's apprentice, being set a task which involved exercising his mathematical skills. But like all good apprentices, he winds up in trouble. And this is where the adventure begins for the reader.
Embracing Mathematics
Author: Peter Appelbaum
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135892245
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
This "alternative textbook" integrates pedagogy and content exploration in ways that are unique in mathematics education, provoking new ideas for making mathematics education meaningful to teachers at all levels as well as their students.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135892245
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
This "alternative textbook" integrates pedagogy and content exploration in ways that are unique in mathematics education, provoking new ideas for making mathematics education meaningful to teachers at all levels as well as their students.
Shop Reference for Students and Apprentices
Author: Christopher J. McCauley
Publisher: Industrial Press Inc.
ISBN: 9780831130794
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
The perfect handbook for the machine shop, tool room, and drafting room.
Publisher: Industrial Press Inc.
ISBN: 9780831130794
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
The perfect handbook for the machine shop, tool room, and drafting room.
McGraw-Hill Ryerson Mathematics
Author: Jeff Brosseau
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Ryerson
ISBN: 9780070917125
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Ryerson
ISBN: 9780070917125
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice
Author: Jean Lave
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226470725
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
In this extended meditation, Jean Lave interweaves analysis of the process of apprenticeship among the Vai and Gola tailors of Liberia with reflections on the evolution of her research on those tailors in the late 1970s. In so doing, she provides both a detailed account of her apprenticeship in the art of sustained fieldwork and an insightful overview of thirty years of changes in the empirical and theoretical facets of ethnographic practice. Examining the issues she confronted in her own work, Lave shows how the critical questions raised by ethnographic research erode conventional assumptions, altering the direction of the work that follows. As ethnography takes on increasing significance to an ever widening field of thinkers on topics from education to ecology, this erudite but accessible book will be essential to anyone tackling the question of what it means to undertake critical and conceptually challenging fieldwork. Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice explains how to seriously explore what it means to be human in a complex world—and why it is so important.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226470725
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
In this extended meditation, Jean Lave interweaves analysis of the process of apprenticeship among the Vai and Gola tailors of Liberia with reflections on the evolution of her research on those tailors in the late 1970s. In so doing, she provides both a detailed account of her apprenticeship in the art of sustained fieldwork and an insightful overview of thirty years of changes in the empirical and theoretical facets of ethnographic practice. Examining the issues she confronted in her own work, Lave shows how the critical questions raised by ethnographic research erode conventional assumptions, altering the direction of the work that follows. As ethnography takes on increasing significance to an ever widening field of thinkers on topics from education to ecology, this erudite but accessible book will be essential to anyone tackling the question of what it means to undertake critical and conceptually challenging fieldwork. Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice explains how to seriously explore what it means to be human in a complex world—and why it is so important.
Knowing, Learning, and Instruction
Author: Lauren B. Resnick
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780805804607
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Learning Research and Development Center (RDC) at the University of Pittsburgh, these papers present contemporary research on cognition and instruction. The book pays homage to Robert Glaser, foudner of LRDC, and includes debates and discussions about issues of fundamental importance to the cognitive science of instruction.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780805804607
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Learning Research and Development Center (RDC) at the University of Pittsburgh, these papers present contemporary research on cognition and instruction. The book pays homage to Robert Glaser, foudner of LRDC, and includes debates and discussions about issues of fundamental importance to the cognitive science of instruction.