Overview
- Lives of mathematicians allow us to glimpse not only the creative process at work in science, but to see how their lives were affected by the turmoil of the century in which they lived and worked
- Excerpts from literary works make evident how pervasive mathematics is in culture as a whole
- Contributions from leading mathematicians in Italy today help put recent developments in historical perspective
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Reviews
From the reviews:
“To attract new blood, mathematics must have a human face. … Thus, one welcomes a book on Bell’s model for the 20th century. … Summing Up: Recommended. All levels/libraries.” (D. V. Feldman, Choice, Vol. 48 (9), May, 2011)
“This is a highly recommendable reading for mathematicians … . Being a collection of independent chapters, the reader can proceed by browsing through the sections guided by the contents table. … the reader can pick the book as a novel and read it from first page to last. This is relevant, because the organization and ordering of the chapters contribute to the overall effect by combining in different doses mathematics and life … . This is a book to read and enjoy … .” (Jesus M. Ruiz, The European Mathematical Society, August, 2011)
“This translation of a 2007 Italian collection has very interesting writeups about Michael Atiyah, N. Bourbaki, E. De Giorgi, A. N. Kolmogorov, John Nash, Laurent Schwartz, Gian-Carlo Rota, and Stephen Smale, among others. … its descriptions of Italian mathematics and its context will be particularly valuable to non-Italians. … there are lots of biographies and commentaries available.” (Robert E. O’Malley, Jr., SIAM Review, Vol. 53 (2), 2011)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mathematical Lives
Book Subtitle: Protagonists of the Twentieth Century From Hilbert to Wiles
Editors: Claudio Bartocci, Renato Betti, Angelo Guerraggio, Roberto Lucchetti
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13606-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-13605-4Published: 09 October 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-44755-6Published: 28 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-13606-1Published: 01 October 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 238
Topics: History of Mathematical Sciences, History of Computing, Algebra, Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences, Mathematical Logic and Foundations, Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes