| #1260986 in Books | Birkhäuser Boston | 1996-12-18 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.02 x.81 x5.98l,1.30 | File type: PDF | 280 pages | ||6 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| An insider thoughts about math|By Jaume Puigbo Vila|Rota is a specialist in a branch of mathematics called combinatorics and he is also a philosopher of the Husserl school (phenomenology). The book has three main parts. In the first he tells us about the life of famous mathematicians in a candid way: their greatness as professionals and some of their failures as human beings. I|||From the reviews: |"Read Indiscrete Thoughts for its account of the way we were and what we have become; for its sensible advice and its exuberant rhetoric." |--The Mathematical Intelligencer |"Learned, thought-provoking, politicall
Indiscrete Thoughts gives a glimpse into a world that has seldom been described - that of science and technology as seen through the eyes of a mathematician. The era covered by this book, 1950 to 1990, was surely one of the golden ages of science and of the American university. Cherished myths are debunked along the way as Gian-Carlo Rota takes pleasure in portraying, warts and all, some of the great scientific personalities of the period. Rota is not afraid of contro...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Indiscrete Thoughts | Gian-Carlo Rota. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
