Occupation: Mathematician Birth: February 3, 1951
A mathematician experiments, amasses information, makes a conjecture, finds out that it does not work, gets confused and then tries to recover. A goo….
Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair..
This book reminds me of James Gleick's Chaos. The ideas and stories in Loving and Hating Mathematics are timely, interesting, and sometimes even prof….