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| + | A popular science book on the Riemann conjecture. Not the only one. This one is a good read for anyone interested, maybe a bit too much psychology (I mean the recurring case of Louis de Branges), but a very accurate picture of the mindset of today’s practising mathematicians. | ||
| + | So far not enough reason for a review, but this book has a feature which is extraordinary. Six little chapters at the end of the book, called toolkits, written for those who want to understand the math as well, not just the story. Starting with exponents and logarithms ending with eigenvalues. The aim is to explain the main mathematical ideas with minimum terminology/overhead/formalism. It’s like ‘Hamlet in 2 paragraphs’, ‘1page War and Peace Abridged’. A toolkit is like the moment when the pupils suddenly see the light when the teacher, after an hour long explanation, in despair tries to rephrase the whole idea in a snappy metaphor. | ||
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| + | I see an opportunity here, for math-toolkit-literature. The recipe is this, write a serious math book. Then ask a journalist to listen to you in cafes for a few afternoon, while you try to explain the content of the book. Then ask him to write a few pages long summary. If the journalist is on the level of Kral Sabbagh, then you can include the toolkit into your book, to make it a bestseller in academic bookshops. | ||
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| + | More math reviews here: | ||
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| + | [[http://mathreader.wordpress.com/]] | ||