Through revealing photographs and accompanying text, this book offers an enchanting and beautiful glimpse into the inner life of the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES). The IHES in France is an institute of advanced research in mathematics and theoretical physics with an interest in epistemology and the history of science. It provides exceptionally gifted scientist...(展开全部)

Through revealing photographs and accompanying text, this book offers an enchanting and beautiful glimpse into the inner life of the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES). The IHES in France is an institute of advanced research in mathematics and theoretical physics with an interest in epistemology and the history of science. It provides exceptionally gifted scientist...(展开全部)

Ivars Peterson 是美国《科学新闻》周刊的科学记者，主要从事对数学和物理学（包括计算机科学）领域最新发展的采访和报道。在迄今为止的20年里，该周刊登载了众多由他写的关于这两门学科的新成就的报道和专题文章。在其工作的基础上，他先后撰写了两本描述数学最新成就的科普著作：《数学巡礼》和《真理群岛》。

Ivars Peterson 是美国《科学新闻》周刊的科学记者，主要从事对数学和物理学（包括计算机科学）领域最新发展的采访和报道。在迄今为止的20年里，该周刊登载了众多由他写的关于这两门学科的新成就的报道和专题文章。在其工作的基础上，他先后撰写了两本描述数学最新成就的科普著作：《数学巡礼》和《真理群岛》。

Ivars Peterson 是美国《科学新闻》周刊的科学记者，主要从事对数学和物理学（包括计算机科学）领域最新发展的采访和报道。在迄今为止的20年里，该周刊登载了众多由他写的关于这两门学科的新成就的报道和专题文章。在其工作的基础上，他先后撰写了两本描述数学最新成就的科普著作：《数学巡礼》和《真理群岛》。

Ivars Peterson 是美国《科学新闻》周刊的科学记者，主要从事对数学和物理学（包括计算机科学）领域最新发展的采访和报道。在迄今为止的20年里，该周刊登载了众多由他写的关于这两门学科的新成就的报道和专题文章。在其工作的基础上，他先后撰写了两本描述数学最新成就的科普著作：《数学巡礼》和《真理群岛》。

Gary Klein, author of the bestselling Sources of Power, is the cognitive psychologist who discovered how people actually make decisions, particularly under time pressure and uncertainty. In Snapshots of the Mind, he offers a set of short essays—“snapshots” of different aspects of cognitive functioning in real-world settings that will help us learn to recognize the cognitive pro...(展开全部)

Winner of the 1983 National Book Award! "...a perfectly marvelous book about the Queen of Sciences, from which one will get a real feeling for what mathematicians do and who they are. The exposition is clear and full of wit and humor..." - The New Yorker (1983 National Book Award edition) Mathematics has been a human activity for thousands of years. Yet only a few people from t...(展开全部)

We tend to think of mathematics as uniquely rigorous, and of mathematicians as supremely smart. In his introduction to The Mathematical Experience, Gian-Carlo Rota notes that instead, "a mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof ... is more often than not a way of making sure that our minds are not playing tricks....(展开全部)