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Ruelle D. — The mathematician's brain: A personal tour through the essentials of mathematics
Ruelle D. — The mathematician's brain: A personal tour through the essentials of mathematics



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Название: The mathematician's brain: A personal tour through the essentials of mathematics

Автор: Ruelle D.

Аннотация:

The Mathematician's Brain poses a provocative question about the world's most brilliant yet eccentric mathematical minds: were they brilliant because of their eccentricities or in spite of them? In this thought-provoking and entertaining book, David Ruelle, the well-known mathematical physicist who helped create chaos theory, gives us a rare insider's account of the celebrated mathematicians he has known-their quirks, oddities, personal tragedies, bad behavior, descents into madness, tragic ends, and the sublime, inexpressible beauty of their most breathtaking mathematical discoveries.

Consider the case of British mathematician Alan Turing. Credited with cracking the German Enigma code during World War II and conceiving of the modern computer, he was convicted of "gross indecency" for a homosexual affair and died in 1954 after eating a cyanide-laced apple — his death was ruled a suicide, though rumors of assassination still linger. Ruelle holds nothing back in his revealing and deeply personal reflections on Turing and other fellow mathematicians, including Alexander Grothendieck, Ren? Thom, Bernhard Riemann, and Felix Klein. But this book is more than a mathematical tell-all. Each chapter examines an important mathematical idea and the visionary minds behind it. Ruelle meaningfully explores the philosophical issues raised by each, offering insights into the truly unique and creative ways mathematicians think and showing how the mathematical setting is most favorable for asking philosophical questions about meaning, beauty, and the nature of reality.

The Mathematician's Brain takes you inside the world — and heads — of mathematicians. It's a journey you won't soon forget.



Язык: en

Рубрика: Математика/

Статус предметного указателя: Готов указатель с номерами страниц

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Год издания: 2007

Количество страниц: 160

Добавлена в каталог: 29.12.2013

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Предметный указатель
Thurston      98
Tinkering      110—112 115
topology      24 27 42 146n6
Topology, axioms of      146n6
Transcendental number      148n1
Transformation      15 142n1
Turbulence      120 121
Turing      26 66 83—84 134n5
Turing machine      83 141n7
Turing Test      83 148n7
Twin primes      64—65
Unconscious      85 103
Undecidability      70
Unity of mathematics      23—26
Usefulness of mathematics      7 128
Vardi      18
Vershik      20 21
viscosity      120 121
Vision      49—50 53—56
von Neumann      46 138n1(ch9)
Web of ideas      114
Weil      26 27—28 31
Weil Conjectures      28 33 70
Weil Simone      28
Wiles      32 135n4(ch6)
Yang      91 93
Zermelo      63 140n1(ch12)
ZFC axioms      63—65 68—72 73 160
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