Mathematics: The New Golden Age - Keith Devlin
Layperson's math... what fun. This is a grand
tour of the grandest areas of Mathematics and is, therefore, quite beautiful. I
didn't appreciate that beauty until much too late - so I have to read surface
level descriptions and still, it's a great time.
Devlin is passionate and articulate about his
subject(s), without succumbing to the obtuse and ego-maniacal use of 6-sigma
words throughout his description of mathematics and its history (a la Berlinski,
who I also enjoy reading. This is a lot of short chapters about huge fields -
just a survey, and just plain
interesting.
Mas math please. My
birthday is approaching.
Posted: Fri - May 14, 2004 at 05:44 AM