Mathematical Conversations: Selections from the Mathematical Intelligencer (2001)
Robin Wilson
(Author)
Jeremy Gray
(Author)
Description
The Mathematical Intelligencer is a one of a kind publication in the field of mathematics, and this compilation pulls together in one volume a selection of the best of the Intelligencer, from its first eighteen years. Professional mathematicians, or readers with some training in the field will find it of great interest.
Product Details
Price
$54.99
$51.14
Publisher
Springer
Publish Date
October 12, 2000
Pages
488
Dimensions
7.36 X 10.29 X 1.27 inches | 2.35 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780387986869
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About the Author
Robin Wilson is Professor of Pure Mathematics at the Open University (UK), a Fellow in Mathematics at Keble College, Oxford University, and Emeritus Gresham Professor of Geometry, London (the oldest mathematical Chair in England). He has written and edited about thirty books, mainly on graph theory and the history of mathematics. His research interests focus mainly on British mathematics, especially in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and on the history of graph theory and combinatorics.
Jeremy Gray is professor of the history of mathematics at the Open University, and an honorary professor at the University of Warwick. His most recent book is Plato's Ghost: The Modernist Transformation of Mathematics (Princeton).
Reviews
"Popular mathematical expositions aim to render exciting, deep mathematics comprehensible to a wide audience (hard!). Since even professional mathematicians can expect to penetrate the technicalities of only a small fraction of mathematical breakthroughs, publications such as The Mathematical Intelligencer, the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, Sugaku, and LÉnseignement Mathmatique (Mathematique) address themselves to at least a wide audience of mathematicians. The Mathematical Intelligencer publishes stylish, well-illustrated articles, rich in ideas and usually short on proofs. The balance of topics reflects the broad spectrum of mathematical activity, and especially, great recent achievements (the Mordell conjecture, the Bieberbach conjecture, the Jones polynomial). Many, but not all articles fall within the reach of the advanced undergraduate mathematics major. For example, every student of advanced calculus should read Felipe Acker's essay on Stokes's theorem and the mean value theorem. This book makes a nice addition to any undergraduate mathematics collection that does not already sport back issues of The Mathematical Intelligencer. Upper-division undergraduates and up."
D.V. Feldman, University of New Hampshire in CHOICE Reviews, June 2001
D.V. Feldman, University of New Hampshire in CHOICE Reviews, June 2001
