Description: Duel at Dawn : Heroes, Martyrs, and the Rise of Modern Mathematics, Paperback by Alexander, Amir, ISBN 0674061748, ISBN-13 9780674061743, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK Alexander shows how popular stories about mathematicians are really morality tales about their craft as it relates to the world. In the eighteenth century, he says, mathematicians were idealized as child-like, eternally curious; by the nineteenth century, brilliant mathematicians became Romantic heroes like poets, artists, and musicians.
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Book Title: Duel at Dawn : Heroes, Martyrs, and the Rise of Modern Mathematic
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Duel at Dawn: Heroes, Martyrs, and the Rise of Modern Mathematics
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication Year: 2011
Subject: Science, Mythology, Mathematics, History
Item Height: 235 mm
Type: Textbook
Author: Amir Alexander
Series: New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Item Width: 156 mm
Format: Paperback
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