Avner Ash

Fearless Symmetry: Exposing the Hidden Patterns of Numbers - New Edition

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All too often, abstract mathematics, one of the most beautiful of human intellectual creations, is ground into the dry dust of drills and proofs. Useful, yes; exciting, no. Avner Ash and Robert Gross have done something different--by focusing on the ideas that modern mathematicians actually care about. Fearless Symmetry is a book about detecting hidden patterns, about finding definitions that clarify, about the study of numbers that has entranced some of our great thinkers for thousands of years. It is a book that takes on number theory in a way that a nonmathematician can follow-systematically but without a barrage of technicalities. Ash and… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Gross, Robert

ISBN: 978-0-691-13871-8
EAN: 9780691138718
Produktnummer: 3854572
Verlag: Princeton Univ Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Seitenangabe: 272 S.
Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.4 cm x D2.2 cm 446 g
Auflage: Revised
Gewicht: 446

Über den Autor

Avner Ash is professor of mathematics at Boston College and the coauthor of Smooth Compactification of Locally Symmetric Varieties. Robert Gross is associate professor of mathematics at Boston College.