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Mathematics without ...
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Mathematics without apologies : portrait of a problematic vocation / Michael Harris.
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Harris, Michael, 1954- author.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2015.
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Mathematics.
Mathematicians.
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9780691154237 :
0691154236 :
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xxii, 438 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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What do pure mathematicians do, and why do they do it? Looking beyond the conventional answers--for the sake of truth, beauty, and practical applications--this book offers an eclectic panorama of the lives and values and hopes and fears of mathematicians in the twenty-first century, assembling material from a startlingly diverse assortment of scholarly, journalistic, and pop culture sources.
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