Letters to a young mathematician
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Basic Books, ©2006.Description: xii, 210 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780465082322
- 510 22 STE-L
- QA99 .S84 2006
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Books | IIITD General Stacks | Mathematics | 510 STE-L (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 29/08/2024 | 007792 |
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510 SAW-M Mathematician's delight | 510 STE-C Concepts of modern mathematics | 510 STE-G The great mathematical problems : | 510 STE-L Letters to a young mathematician | 510 STE-M Mathematics of life : | 510 STE-W What's the use? : | 510 STO-E Elementary numerical mathematics for programmers and engineers |
Includes bibliographical references.
Why do math? -- How I almost became a lawyer -- The breadth of mathematics -- Hasn't it all been done? -- Surrounded by math -- How mathematicians think -- How to learn math -- Fear of proofs -- Can't computers solve everything? -- Mathematical storytelling -- Going for the jugular -- Blockbusters -- Impossible problems -- The career ladder -- Pure or applied? -- Where do you get those crazy ideas? -- How to teach math -- The mathematical community -- Pigs and pickup trucks -- Pleasures and perils of collaboration -- Is God a mathematician?
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