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- ISBN 9781568817132
- Weight: 635g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Apr 2010
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book traces the history of the MIT Department of Mathematics—one of the most important mathematics departments in the world—through candid, in-depth, lively conversations with a select and diverse group of its senior members. The process reveals much about the motivation, path, and impact of research mathematicians in a society that owes so much to this little understood and often mystifying section of its intellectual fabric.
At a time when the mathematical experience touches and attracts more laypeople than ever, such a book contributes to our understanding and entertains through its personal approach.
Joel Segel, the editor and interviewer, is a writer with a background in the sciences and the son of an accomplished mathematician.
