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The mind of the mathematician / Michael Fitzgerald and Ioan James.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fitzgerald, Michael, 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mathematicians--Psychology.
- Mathematicians.
- Mathematics--Study and teaching--Psychological aspects.
- Mathematics.
- Mathematical ability.
- Mathematical ability--Sex differences.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 181 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- Internationally famous mathematician Ioan James and accomplished psychiatrist Michael Fitzgerald look at the complex world of mathematics and the mind. They explore the behavior and personality traits that tend to fit the profile of a mathematician and discuss mathematics and the arts, savants, gender and mathematical ability, and the impact of autism, personality disorders, and mood disorders.
- Contents:
- Part I Tour of the Literature
- Chapter 1 Mathematicians and Their World 3
- Chapter 2 Mathematical Ability 24
- Chapter 3 The Dynamics of Mathematical Creation 42
- Part II Twenty Mathematical Personalities
- Chapter 4 Lagrange, Gauss, Cauchy, and Dirichlet 67
- Chapter 5 Hamilton, Galois, Byron, and Riemann 88
- Chapter 6 Cantor, Kovalevskaya, Poincare, and Hilbert 105
- Chapter 7 Hadamard, Hardy, Noether, and Ramanujan 131
- Chapter 8 Fisher, Wiener, Dirac, and Godel 149.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-174) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0801885876
- 9780801885877
- OCLC:
- 70877947
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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