[PDF.90af] Duel at Dawn: Heroes, Martyrs, and the Rise of Modern Mathematics (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine)

Duel at Dawn: Heroes, Martyrs, and the Rise of Modern Mathematics (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine)

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 | #1520558 in Books |  2011-10-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  .80 x6.14 x9.15l,.54 | File type: PDF | 320 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Thoroughly Enjoyable and Informative|By Whitfield Martin|While I believe E. Jaksetic's review (3 stars) is very accurate and precise, I personally like this book very much so I give it 5 stars. It is fascinating and enjoyable read, at the same time very informative. For more serious mathematics readers should read the E. Jaksetic review as well.|2 of 3 people found the followi|From Publishers Weekly|With tremendous attention to detail, historian Alexander examines the lives of 18th and 19th century mathematicians, finding much evidence to support his theory that the earlier geniuses of math [...] cultivated an artistic temperament, li

In the fog of a Paris dawn in 1832, Évariste Galois, the 20-year-old founder of modern algebra, was shot and killed in a duel. That gunshot, suggests Amir Alexander, marked the end of one era in mathematics and the beginning of another.
Arguing that not even the purest mathematics can be separated from its cultural background, Alexander shows how popular stories about mathematicians are really morality tales about their craft as it relates to the world...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Duel at Dawn: Heroes, Martyrs, and the Rise of Modern Mathematics (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine)   |  Amir Alexander.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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