Recountings: Conversations with MIT Mathematicians

This book traces the history of the MIT Department of Mathematics--one of the most important mathematics departments in the world--through candid, in-depth, lively conversations with a select and diverse group of its senior members. The process reveals much about the motivation, path, and impact of research mathematicians in a society that owes so much to this little understood and often mystifying section of its intellectual fabric. At a time when the mathematical experience touches and attracts more laypeople than ever, such a book contributes to our understanding and entertains through its personal approach.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568817134
• ISBN13: 9781568817132
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: A K PETERS
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"