The Artist and the Mathematician - Amir D. Aczel
The Story of Nicolas Bourbaki, the Genius Mathematician who Never Existed
KORTE INHOUD
Traces the intellectual prank through which the character of a fictional 1930s genius mathematician was devised and promoted throughout the American education system, describing how he was credited with originating the modern mathematical proof and the emergence of "new math."
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Original boards, dust jacket, a few b/w illustrations. [Auteur: Aczel, Amir D.] [Pagina's: 239] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: New York : Thunder's Mouth Press] [Jaar: 2006] [Titel: The Artist and the Mathematician: The Story of Nicolas Bourbaki, the Genius Mathematician Who Never Existed]
