The Artist and the Mathematician - Amir D. Aczel

The Story of Nicolas Bourbaki, the Genius Mathematician who Never Existed

KORTE INHOUD

Traces the intellectual prank through which the character of a fictional 1930s genius mathematician was devised and promoted throughout the American education system, describing how he was credited with originating the modern mathematical proof and the emergence of "new math."
2006Taal: Engelszie alle details...

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2006Uitgever: Basic Books239 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 1560259310ISBN-13: 9781560259312

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