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Michael Harris, Mathematics without Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation (Science Essentials)

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. 464 pp. $22.95. ISBN: 978–0691175836

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This is a review of mathematician Michael Harris’s book “Mathematics without Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation.”

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, 20481, USA

    Stanley Chang

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Chang, S. Michael Harris, Mathematics without Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation (Science Essentials). Soc 55, 379–382 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-018-0273-7

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