The Artist and the Mathematician

Critics

• The birth of structuralism

  Of all the sciences and pseudo-sciences that clamour for our attention, none is a tougher sell than pure mathematics. The British have never been noticeably keen on abstraction, but there’s something about algebra, analysis and, indeed, topological v ... (read full critics)

  spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

• The birth of structuralism

  Of all the sciences and pseudo-sciences that clamour for our attention, none is a tougher sell than pure mathematics. The British have never been noticeably keen on abstraction, but there’s something about algebra, analysis and, indeed, topological v ... (read full critics)

  spectator published on Mon, 13 Sep 2010

1 Review

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  Unlike Fermat's Last Theorem this fails to make mathematics interesting. The events surrounding the Nicholas Bourbaki afffair could have made an interesting mathematical history piece and I would be quite interested in a laymans history of structuralism but this book seems to miss out on both.

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• English Books
• Hardcover 272 Pages
• ISBN-10: 1843440342
• ISBN-13: 9781843440345
• Publisher: High Stakes Publishing
• Pub date: Mar 22, 2007
• Also available as: Paperback

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