Numbers and the world essays on math and beyond / David Mumford.

Author/creator Mumford, David, 1937-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoProvidence, Rhode Island : American Mathematical Society, [2023]
Descriptionpages cm
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Contents The math behind the cover -- Preface : confessions of a polymath -- How to get middle school students to love formulas & triangles -- Explaining Grothendieck to non-mathematicians -- Are mathematical formulas beautiful? -- Pythagoras's rule -- The checkered history of algebra -- Multi-cultural math history in 5 slides -- "Modern" art/"modern" math and the Zeitgeist -- Interlude : intelligent design in Orion? -- AI, neuroscience and consciousness -- Parse trees are ubiquitous in thinking -- Linking deep learning and cortical functions -- Does/can human consciousness exist in animals and robots? -- Finding the rhythms of the primes -- Spaces of shapes and rogue waves -- An applied mathematician's foundations of math -- Quantum theory and the mysterious collapse -- Path integrals and quantum computing -- Wake up! -- One world or many? -- Spinoza : Euclid, ethics, time -- Thoughts on the future.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2023014079
ISBN9781470470517 (paperback)
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