Mathematical people: Profiles and interviews. Albers D.J., Alexanderson G.L.

Mathematical people: Profiles and interviews



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Mathematical people: Profiles and interviews Albers D.J., Alexanderson G.L.. pdf ebook Publisher: AK Peters Language: English Page: 406 ISBN: 1568813406, 9781568813400

Review

For most of us mathematics is ancient and ossified, like Latin. Yet if a single thread runs through these 25 interviews and profiles of living mathematicians, it is that their work is far from dead. The editors, both math professors, want Mathematical People to dispel the notion that mathematicians are remote, unapproachable, aloof, and may be even a bit strange. --Terence Monmaney, Science

In Mathematical People, 25 welcome and often engaging profiles of or conversations with the men and women of mathematics, we discover that mathematicians have clear recollections of when they fell in love with the subject. Books like Mathematical People can also be instruments of the subject s survival. By introducing the public to otherwise normal human beings who happen to love mathematics, helps make the subject less frightfully alien. --Michael A. Guillen, The New York Times

Unless your next-door neighbor happens to be a mathematician, you won t find a more human introduction to mathematics than Mathematical People. The book relies on short, lively interviews instead of scholarly biography to dramatize the daily lives, work, and hopes of some 20 modern mathematicians. --Frank Morgan, Technology Review

About the Author

Donald J. Albers is Editorial Director of the books program of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). He is former Associate Executive Director and Director of Publications of the MAA. Prior to that, he was chair of the Department of Mathematics of Menlo College. He was the founding editor of Math Horizons, and as editor of the College Mathematics Journal he introduced interviews and profiles of famous mathematical personalities, which ultimately led to the publication of Mathematical People (with G.L. Alexanderson) and More Mathematical People (with Alexanderson and Constance Reid). He has co-edited six other books.

Gerald L. Alexanderson is the Valeriote Professor of Science at Santa Clara University where he was chair of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (for 35 years!). He is the Former President (1997-1999) and past Secretary of the Mathematical Association of America. He is also the Associate Director of the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, former editor of Mathematics Magazine, and currently editor of the Spectrum Series of books for the MAA. Overall he has written or edited, almost always in collaboration with others, 14 books ranging from textbooks, problem collections, histories and biographies, to anthologies. Paraphrasing Vikram Seth, he claims that with few exceptional short periods he has always kept Pacific Standard Time.


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