Numbers and the world : essays on math and beyond David Mumford
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- AMS Non-Series Monographs, v. 149
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- English
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- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Providence, Rhode Island American Mathematical Society [2023]
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- Mode of access : World Wide Web
- Contents:
- How to get middle school students to love formulas and triangles Explaining Grothendieck to non-mathematicians Are mathematical formulas beautiful? Pythagoras's rule The checkered history of algebra Multi-culutural math history in five slides "Modern" art/"modern" math and the Zeitgeist Interlude: Intelligent design in Orion? Parse trees are ubiquitous in thinking Linking deep learning and cortical functions Does/can human consciousness exist in animals and robots? Finding the rhythms of the primes Spaces of shapes and rogue waves An applied mathematician's foundations of math Quantum theory and the mysterious collapse Path integrals and quantum computing Wake up! One world or many? Spinoza: Euclid, ethics, time Thoughts on the future
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- Includes bibliographical references
- Electronic reproduction. Providence, Rhode Island : American Mathematical Society. 2023
- Description based on print version record
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- Print version: Mumford, David, 1937- Numbers and the world :
- ISBN:
- 9781470474492
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- Restricted for use by site license
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