This is Us, Vol. 1: Doing Math : Category Theorists at Buffalo (Live Art) [Paperback]

Barbara Mikolajewska (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1999

This book provides a light-hearted impromptu record of mathematicians wielding the tools of their trade: chalk, blackboard, projector, pointer (or finger), and ideas.

A discrete phototranscript of the 13 lectures constituting the Special Session on "Smooth Categories in Geometry and Mechanics" of the 943rd regional meeting of the American Mathematical Society held April 24-25, 1999, in Buffalo, NY, it is at the same t

This is the Grayscale edition. A full color edition, otherwise identical, is also available, at a premium price, as ISBN 0-9659529-7-5.

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From the Publisher

Started in 1997, The Lintons' Video Press is a small print-on-demand publisher offering a growing collection of affordable, high-quality, hand-finished print and videotape titles.

The Live Art Series has as its aim to uncover the artistic component to be found -- even if unexpectedly -- in a wide variety of professional, cultural, ethnic, and religious activities.

About the Author

Barbara Mikolajewska, sociologist long affiliated with the University of Warsaw (Poland), has written numerous monographs, edited several anthologies, and translated into Polish R. Girard's "William Shakespeare: A Theater of Envy."

Now on prolonged academic leave, she is married to an American mathematician, and lives in New Haven, CT, with her husband, their adoptive cats, and a recalcitrant Packard Bell Pentium.

Product Details

• Paperback: 108 pages
• Publisher: Fred E. J. Linton; Grayscale edition (July 1999)
• ISBN-10: 0965952932
• ISBN-13: 978-0965952934
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,865,413 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)