The Artist and the Mathematician
The Story of Nicolas Bourbaki, the Genius Mathematician Who Never Existed...




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spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010
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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
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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.
huntch said on Jul 17, 2007 | Add your feedback
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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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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)