A History in Sum: 150 Years of Mathematics at Harvard (1825–1975)
Awards:   Commended for PROSE (Mathematics) 2013 Commended for PROSE Awards 2013
Author:   Steve Nadis ,  Shing-Tung Yau
Publisher:   Harvard University Press
ISBN:  

9780674725003


Pages:   280
Publication Date:   01 November 2013
Format:   Hardback
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  • Commended for PROSE (Mathematics) 2013
  • Commended for PROSE Awards 2013

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Author:   Steve Nadis ,  Shing-Tung Yau
Publisher:   Harvard University Press
Imprint:   Harvard University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9780674725003


ISBN 10:   067472500
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   01 November 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Language:   English

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A triumph! I know of no other book like A History in Sum . Nadis and Yau offer a delightfully lucid introduction to the dazzling and heroic ideas of twentieth-century mathematics--and the colorful personalities and stories behind them.--Steven Strogatz, Author Of the Joy Of X: A Guided Tour Of Math, From One To Infinity


The remarkable result is an account, at a consistently clear, non-specialist level, of a wide swath of modern mathematics.--Albert C. Lewis Mathematical Reviews (starred review) (06/01/2014)


A triumph! I know of no other book like A History in Sum. Nadis and Yau offer a delightfully lucid introduction to the dazzling and heroic ideas of twentieth-century mathematics--and the colorful personalities and stories behind them.--Steven Strogatz, author of The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity


Author Information

Steve Nadis is a freelance science writer living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Shing-Tung Yau, a Fields Medal winner, is William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics and former chair of the Mathematics Department at Harvard University.

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