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.
The Philosophers' Game
Author: Ann Elizabeth Moyer
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472112289
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
An exploration of the history of a mathematical board game played in medieval and Renaissance Europe
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472112289
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
An exploration of the history of a mathematical board game played in medieval and Renaissance Europe
Thomas Vaughan and the Rosicrucian Revival in Britain
Author: Thomas Willard
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004519734
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Thomas Vaughan’s challenging books on alchemy, magic, and other esoterica make better sense in the context of the Rosicrucian ideas he introduced to English readers in the seventeenth century. This is the first scholarly book on his life, sources, writings, and subsequent influence.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004519734
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Thomas Vaughan’s challenging books on alchemy, magic, and other esoterica make better sense in the context of the Rosicrucian ideas he introduced to English readers in the seventeenth century. This is the first scholarly book on his life, sources, writings, and subsequent influence.
On the Origin and Progress of the Art of Music by John Taverner
Author: Joseph M. Ortiz
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351799002
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
John Taverner’s lectures on music constitute the only extant version of a complete university course in music in early modern England. Originally composed in 1611 in both English and Latin, they were delivered at Gresham College in London between 1611 and 1638, and it is likely that Taverner intended at some point to publish the lectures in the form of a music treatise. The lectures, which Taverner collectively titled De Ortu et Progressu Artis Musicæ ("On the Origin and Progress of the Art of Music"), represent a clear attempt to ground musical education in humanist study, particularly in Latin and Greek philology. Taverner’s reliance on classical and humanist writers attests to the durability of music’s association with rhetoric and philology, an approach to music that is too often assigned to early Tudor England. Taverner is also a noteworthy player in the seventeenth-century Protestant debates over music, explicitly defending music against Reformist polemicists who see music as an overly sensuous activity. In this first published edition of Taverner’s musical writings, Joseph M. Ortiz comprehensively introduces, edits, and annotates the text of the lectures, and an appendix contains the existing Latin version of Taverner’s text. By shedding light on a neglected figure in English Renaissance music history, this edition is a significant contribution to the study of musical thought in Renaissance England, humanism, Protestant Reformism, and the history of education.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351799002
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
John Taverner’s lectures on music constitute the only extant version of a complete university course in music in early modern England. Originally composed in 1611 in both English and Latin, they were delivered at Gresham College in London between 1611 and 1638, and it is likely that Taverner intended at some point to publish the lectures in the form of a music treatise. The lectures, which Taverner collectively titled De Ortu et Progressu Artis Musicæ ("On the Origin and Progress of the Art of Music"), represent a clear attempt to ground musical education in humanist study, particularly in Latin and Greek philology. Taverner’s reliance on classical and humanist writers attests to the durability of music’s association with rhetoric and philology, an approach to music that is too often assigned to early Tudor England. Taverner is also a noteworthy player in the seventeenth-century Protestant debates over music, explicitly defending music against Reformist polemicists who see music as an overly sensuous activity. In this first published edition of Taverner’s musical writings, Joseph M. Ortiz comprehensively introduces, edits, and annotates the text of the lectures, and an appendix contains the existing Latin version of Taverner’s text. By shedding light on a neglected figure in English Renaissance music history, this edition is a significant contribution to the study of musical thought in Renaissance England, humanism, Protestant Reformism, and the history of education.