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Michael Harris

Mathematics without Apologies


Portrait of a Problematic Vocation
2017. 464 S. 16 ill. 232 mm
Verlag/Jahr: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS 2017
ISBN: 0-691-17583-7 (0691175837)
Neue ISBN: 978-0-691-17583-6 (9780691175836)

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Drawing on his personal experiences and obsessions as well as the thoughts and opinions of mathematicians from Archimedes and Omar Khayyám to such contemporary giants as Alexander Grothendieck and Robert Langlands, Michael Harris reveals the charisma and romance of mathematics as well as its darker side. In this portrait of mathematics as a community united around a set of common intellectual, ethical, and existential challenges, he touches on a wide variety of questions, such as: Are mathematicians to blame for the 2008 financial crisis? How can we talk about the ideas we were born too soon to understand? And how should you react if you are asked to explain number theory at a dinner party?
"A wry and insightful look at what being a pure mathematician is all about, as seen from the inside."--Steven Strogatz, Physics Today
Michael Harris is professor of mathematics at the Université Paris Diderot and Columbia University. He is the author or coauthor of more than eighty mathematical books and articles, and has received a number of prizes, including the Clay Research Award, which he shared in 2007 with Richard Taylor.