The Mathematician's Brain: A Personal Tour Through the Essentials of Mathematics and Some of the Great Minds Behind Them

by David Ruelle

Book Overview

The Mathematician's Brain poses a provocative question about the world's most brilliant yet eccentric mathematical minds: were they brilliant because of their eccentricities or in spite of them? In this thought-provoking and entertaining book, David Ruelle, the well-known mathematical physicist who helped create chaos theory, gives us a rare insider's account of the celebrated mathematicians he has known-their quirks, oddities, personal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691129827
• ISBN13: 9780691129822
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.5"