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Author: Robin Wilson (Emeritus Professor of Pure Mathematics, Open University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 13.00cm
, Height: 1.10cm
, Length: 19.70cm
Weight: 0.136kg
ISBN: 9780198794936
ISBN 10: 0198794932
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 25 July 2019
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
As ever, Robin Wilson's prose is witty, smooth, accurate and effortlessly enjoyable and I recommend this book unreservedly as a thoroughly good read * Nick Lord, The Mathematical Gazette * The distinguished mathematical historian Robin Wilson does his usual masterful job of telling a wonderfully entertaining story here about Euler's equation. * John J. Watkins, MathSciNet * Robin Wilson has produced a wonderful introduction to some of the most fundamental ideas in mathematics. I would highly recommend that you give a copy to any inquisitive young person you know. * Andrew Hone, LMS Newsletter * Excellent book... very readable... superb illustrations. * Peter Ransom, Symmetry Plus * The amount of information compressed in only 150 pages is amazing. This doesn't mean that it is so dense that it becomes unreadable. Quite the opposite. Because there are no long drawn-out detours, the story becomes straightforward and understandable ... I liked [this book] because it is quite broad, touching upon so many mathematical subjects, mainly in their historical context, while readability remains most enjoyable notwithstanding its conciseness. * Adhemar Bultheel, European Mathematical Society *
Excellent book... very readable... superb illustrations. * Peter Ransom, Symmetry Plus * Robin Wilson has produced a wonderful introduction to some of the most fundamental ideas in mathematics. I would highly recommend that you give a copy to any inquisitive young person you know. * Andrew Hone, LMS Newsletter * The distinguished mathematical historian Robin Wilson does his usual masterful job of telling a wonderfully entertaining story here about Euler's equation. * John J. Watkins, MathSciNet *
Excellent book... very readable... superb illustrations. * Peter Ransom, Symmetry Plus * Robin Wilson has produced a wonderful introduction to some of the most fundamental ideas in mathematics. I would highly recommend that you give a copy to any inquisitive young person you know. * Andrew Hone, LMS Newsletter * The distinguished mathematical historian Robin Wilson does his usual masterful job of telling a wonderfully entertaining story here about Euler's equation. * John J. Watkins, MathSciNet * As ever, Robin Wilson's prose is witty, smooth, accurate and effortlessly enjoyable and I recommend this book unreservedly as a thoroughly good read * Nick Lord, The Mathematical Gazette *
Author Information
Robin Wilson is an Emeritus Professor of Pure Mathematics at the Open University, Emeritus Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London, and a former fellow of Keble College, Oxford University. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. A former President of the British Society for the History of Mathematics, he has written and edited many books on the history of mathematics, including Lewis Carroll in Numberland, and also on graph theory, including Introduction to Graph Theory and Four Colours Suffice. Involved with the popularization of mathematics and its history, he has been awarded the Mathematical Association of America's Lester Ford award and Pólya prize for his 'outstanding expository writing', and the Ralph Stanton Award for outreach activities in combinatorics. He has Erdös Number 1.
