Drawbridge up! : Mathematics - a Cultural Anathema

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Hans-Magnus Enzensberger

48 pages, parution le 15/01/1999

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Résumé

Having an eminent poet and astute essayist ask the question:

How does it happen that mathematics has remained as it were a blind spot in our culture-alien territory, in which only the elite, the initiate few have managed to entrench themselves?

and respond after a thoughtful and impassioned analysis:

The effort in question is the achievement of mathematical literacy - a protracted but highly auspicious project, which, if it is begun at an early age, provides our all too sluggish brains with a kind of athletic work-out and yields us a variety of pleasure to which we are quite unaccustomed.

should make every person interested in mathematics want to read this book and recommend it to friends.

Bilingual (German/English) edition of the talk given at the International Congress of Mathematicians, Berlin, 1998, with illustrations by K. H. Hofmann and an introduction by David Mumford, discusses the role of mathematics within our culture.

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L'auteur - Hans-Magnus Enzensberger

Poète, écrivain et traducteur, auteur d'une oeuvre considérable, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, né en 1929, est l'un des plus fins analystes de l'époque contemporaine. Il a récemment publié une biographie littéraire, Hammerstein ou l'Intransigeance (Gallimard).

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	AK Peters
Auteur(s)	Hans-Magnus Enzensberger
Parution	15/01/1999
Nb. de pages	48
Format	13 x 19
Couverture	Relié
Poids	150g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781568811567
ISBN13	978-1-56881-156-7