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Author:   David Mumford, QC
Publisher:   American Mathematical Society
Imprint:   American Mathematical Society
Weight:   0.272kg
ISBN:  

9781470470517

ISBN 10:   1470470519
Pages:   241
Publication Date:   30 November 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"Opening more eyes to mathematics: How to get middle school students to love formulas & triangles Explaining Grothendieck to non-mathematicians Are mathematical formulas beautiful? The history of mathematics: Pythagoras's rule The checkered history of algebra Multi-culutural math history in five slides """"Modern"""" art/""""modern"""" math and the Zeitgeist Interlude: Intelligent design in Orion? AI, neuroscience, and consciousness: Parse trees are ubiquitous in thinking Linking deep learning and cortical functions Does/can human consciousness exist in animals and robots? And now, some bits of real math: Finding the rhythms of the primes Spaces of shapes and rogue waves An applied mathematician's foundations of math Coming to terms with the quantum: Quantum theory and the mysterious collapse Path integrals and quantum computing Nothing is simple in the real world: Wake up! One world or many? Spinoza: Euclid, ethics, time Thoughts on the future Author's bibliography Bibliography"

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David Mumford, Brown University, Providence, RI, and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

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