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A Mathematical Medley : Fifty Easy Pieces on Mathematics, Paperback / softback Book

A Mathematical Medley : Fifty Easy Pieces on Mathematics Paperback / softback

Part of the Monograph Books series

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Mathematics is thriving. Not only have long-standing problems, such as the Poincaré conjecture, been solved, but mathematics is an important element of many modern conveniences, such as cell phones, CDs, and secure transactions over the Internet.

For good or for bad, it is also the engine that drives modern investment strategies.

Fortunately for the general public, mathematics and its modern applications can be intelligible to the non-specialist, as George Szpiro shows in A Mathematical Medley. In stories of a few pages each, Szpiro describes in layman's terms mathematical problems that have recently been solved (or thought to have been solved), research that was published in scientific journals, and mathematical observations about contemporary life.

Anecdotal stories about the lives of mathematicians and stories about famous old problems are interspersed among other vignettes.

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