Mathematics Without Apologies by Michael Harris
Portrait of a Problematic Vocation
An erudite, playful meditation on the culture, aesthetics, and politics of pure mathematics, portraying its practitioners as artists driven by curiosity, beauty, and internal standards rather than utility. Blending memoir, interviews, and critique, it probes abstraction, proof, and the Langlands program, engages with philosophy and the marketplace, and defends the autonomy and ethical complexity of the vocation.
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- Published
- 2015
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Moderate
- Pages
- 460-470
- Original Language
- English
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