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The Beauty of Doing Mathematics: Three Public Dialogues 1985th Edition

by Serge Lang (Author)
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Product Details

  • Paperback: 144 pages
  • Publisher: Springer; 1985 edition (September 4, 1985)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0387961496
  • ISBN-13: 978-0387961491
  • Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.3 x 9.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 7.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Interesting, but not great...
By true1987 on March 5, 2001
Format: Paperback
This is another book from the famous Yale math professor, Serge Lang. However, this isn't a textbook - it's a collection of 3 dialogues Lang gave in Paris in the 80s.
Certainly the discussions are very interesting. The interactions between Lang and the audience, comprimising mostly 'ordinary' people but also high-school and college students, set this book apart from a textbook. Lang does a fairly good job at covering the material (relating to primes, Diophantine equations, and a bit of geometry/topology) and explaining it to the non-mathematically-inclined. Of course, with this come problems - Lang only skims over the material and much of what he says is not supported by proof.
If you would like an interesting read, I would recommend this book. However, if you would actually like to learn something about Goldbach's conjecture or elliptic curves, (first and second dialogues, respectively) a textbook or book dedicated to the subject is a much better source. To compare it to an everyday situation: if you had a conversation with friends, and taped and transcribed it - reading it certainly may be interesting, but not very informative.
However, if you like material like this - I suggest you also search for "Martin Gardner" here on amazon.com; he's an excellent author for those not deeply involved with math (and even those who are).
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