An edition of Unity and Disunity: and Other Mathematical Essays
(2015)
Unity and Disunity
and Other Mathematical Essays
by Philip J. Davis
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Unity and Disunity: and Other Mathematical Essays
2015, American Mathematical Society
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1470420236 9781470420239
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Table of Contents
Preface
The unity and disunity of mathematics
Evidence in mathematics
Out of what stuff do we make mathematics?
Computational experiences in the pre-electronic days
Spengler's mathematics considered and a phoenix reborn?
Can the mathematical/physical notions of entropy be usefully imported into the social sphere? / The decline, fall, and current resurgence of visual geometry: mathematics as a multisemiotic enterprise
The unicorn or mathematical ontology
Mathematics, politics, and law
The two culture controversy: a mathematician's view a half century later
Four literary men comment on mathematics: Henry James, George Santayana, Paul Valéry, and Isaiah Berlin
The media and mathematics look at each other
New winds blowing in applied mathematics.
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