A New Year Present from a Mathematician 1st Edition by Snezana Lawrence 9780367219376 0367219379
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ISBN 10:0367219379
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Author:Snezana Lawrence
Longlisted for the BSHS Hughes Prize 2021 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 mathematics through to the 20th century, but not in a usual, chronological manner. The author weaves her story around major questions concerning nature of mathematics, and links mathematicians by the substance of their ideas and the historical and personal context in which they were developed. Ideal as a gift for anyone with an interest in mathematics, this book gives a powerful insight into mathematical concepts in an easy-to-read-and-digest manner, without trivializing their nature. The attention given to engaging examples, framed within a poetic narrative structure, means that this book can be enjoyed by almost anyone, regardless of their level of mathematical education.
A New Year Present from a Mathematician 1st Table of contents:
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 Life
Notes
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
Mathematics is Chapter 6 JuneLike … a Translucent Object Floating in Space
Solids 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 in the Road
Bourbaki’s Theorem – En Fin
Notes
Chapter 9 September
The Mathematical Traveler is at Home Everywhere
The Number that Bears Your Name
Can I Imagine an Even Bigger Number?
Big Numbers in Antiquity
Erdős 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 Future
Notes
Chapter 12 December
What Presents 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
A Happy New Year’s card
Bibliography
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