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A Mathematician’s Apology by G. H. Hardy Cambridge University Press, first edition 1940, latest edition 2012, 154 pp., $17.99 An Applied Mathematician’s Apology by Lloyd N. Trefethen SIAM, 2022, 79 pp., $36.00 Mathematics Is the Poetry of Science by Cédric Villani Oxford University Press, 2020, 69 pp., $17.99

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“Mathematics, argues Villani, is a game of describing and understanding—and doing it all as men and women, fashioning stories that we tell over and over, almost as poetry or prayer.”

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Simoson, A.J. A Mathematician’s Apology by G. H. Hardy Cambridge University Press, first edition 1940, latest edition 2012, 154 pp., $17.99 An Applied Mathematician’s Apology by Lloyd N. Trefethen SIAM, 2022, 79 pp., $36.00 Mathematics Is the Poetry of Science by Cédric Villani Oxford University Press, 2020, 69 pp., $17.99. Math Intelligencer (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-024-10345-2

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