The Beauty of Doing Mathematics: Three Public Dialogues 1985th Edition by Serge Lang (PDF)

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If someone told you that mathematics is quite beautiful, you might be surprised. But you should know that some people do mathematics all their lives, and create mathematics, just as a composer creates music. Usually, every time a mathematician solves a problem, this gives rise to many oth­ ers, new and just as beautiful as the one which was solved. Of course, often these problems are quite difficult, and as in other disciplines can be understood only by those who have studied the subject with some depth, and know the subject well. In 1981, Jean Brette, who is responsible for the Mathematics Section of the Palais de la Decouverte (Science Museum) in Paris, invited me to give a conference at the Palais. I had never given such a conference before, to a non-mathematical public. Here was a challenge: could I communicate to such a Saturday afternoon audience what it means to do mathematics, and why one does mathematics? By “mathematics” I mean pure mathematics. This doesn’t mean that pure math is better than other types of math, but I and a number of others do pure mathematics, and it’s about them that I am now concerned. Math has a bad reputation, stemming from the most elementary levels. The word is in fact used in many different contexts. First, I had to explain briefly these possible contexts, and the one with which I wanted to deal.

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⭐This is another book from the famous Yale math professor, Serge Lang. However, this isn’t a textbook – it’s a collection of 3 dialogues Lang gave in Paris in the 80s.Certainly the discussions are very interesting. The interactions between Lang and the audience, comprimising mostly ‘ordinary’ people but also high-school and college students, set this book apart from a textbook. Lang does a fairly good job at covering the material (relating to primes, Diophantine equations, and a bit of geometry/topology) and explaining it to the non-mathematically-inclined. Of course, with this come problems – Lang only skims over the material and much of what he says is not supported by proof.If you would like an interesting read, I would recommend this book. However, if you would actually like to learn something about Goldbach’s conjecture or elliptic curves, (first and second dialogues, respectively) a textbook or book dedicated to the subject is a much better source. To compare it to an everyday situation: if you had a conversation with friends, and taped and transcribed it – reading it certainly may be interesting, but not very informative.However, if you like material like this – I suggest you also search for “Martin Gardner” here on amazon.com; he’s an excellent author for those not deeply involved with math (and even those who are).

⭐生の講義を聴きに行ったような気分になれる良書です。多様体に興味が持てました。

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