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Drawbridge Up: Mathematics?A Cultural Anathema [Hardcover]

Hans Magnus Enzensberger (Author)

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ISBN-10: 156881156X | ISBN-13: 978-1568811567 | Publication Date: April 30, 2001 | Edition: Bilingual

This bilingual (German/English) edition of the talk given at the International Congress of Mathematicians, Berlin, 1998, with illustrations by K. H. Hofmann and an introduction by David Mumford, discusses the role of mathematics within our culture.

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" ""The German poet and essayist Hans Magnus Enzensberger was an invited speaker at the 1998 International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin. His talk, analyzing the exclusion of mathematics from the cultural sphere by the public, is the basis of..."" -Agnes Tuska, MAA Online, October 2001
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Hardcover: 48 pages
Publisher: A K Peters/CRC Press; Bilingual edition (April 30, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 156881156X
ISBN-13: 978-1568811567
Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 4.8 x 0.4 inches
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger is one of Germany's greatest living writers. In The Number Devil he has written a book that is essential reading for anyone - of any age who has ever been mystified by maths. The author lives in Munich.

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