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- Beautifully written articles from three great modern mathematicians
- Ideas provoke thought and debate
- Provides a source for supplemental reading for almost any math class
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Discrete Thoughts
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From the reviews of the second edition:
"...These papers reflect on mathematics and its influence on human society. They can help the specialist to notice what is going on around him, and they may lead educated people from other domains to a better understanding of mathematics. Many of these papers can advise educators how to form a modern mathematics education, which develops approved ideas and institutions...I admire the stimulating perspectives of the authors"
--American Mathematical Society
"Kac, Rota, and Schwartz have collected here: occasional essays about mathematics, mathematicians, and surrounding subjects. … The essays are fun to read, light in manner but serious in content. Many of them are provocative. … As a result, the book would make wonderful fodder for a reading course or seminar. … Discrete Thoughts is a classic indeed." (Fernando Q. Gouvêa, MathDL, January, 2008)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Discrete Thoughts
Book Subtitle: Essays on Mathematics, Science and Philosophy
Authors: Mark Kac, Gian-Carlo Rota, Jacob T. Schwartz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4775-9
Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston, MA
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1992
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-8176-3636-4Published: 01 June 1993
eBook ISBN: 978-0-8176-4775-9Published: 01 July 2009
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XII, 266
Additional Information: Originally published as a monograph
Topics: History of Mathematical Sciences, Mathematical Logic and Foundations, Applications of Mathematics, Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences, Mathematics, general