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Unity and Disunity and Other Mathematical Essays
About this Title
Philip J. Davis, Brown University, Providence, RI
Publication: AMS Non-Series Monographs
Publication Year:
2015; Volume 94
ISBNs: 978-1-4704-2023-9 (print); 978-1-4704-2570-8 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/mbk/094
ReadershipTable of Contents
Front/Back Matter
Chapters
- The unity and disunity of mathematics
- Evidence in mathematics
- Out of what stuff do we make mathematics?
- Computational experiences in the pre-electronic days
- Spengler’s mathematics considered and a Phoenix reborn?
- Can the mathematical/physical notions of entropy be usefully imported into the social sphere?
- The decline, fall, and current resurgence of visual geometry: Mathematics as a multisemiotic enterprise
- The unicorn or mathematical ontology
- Mathematics, politics, and law
- The two culture controversy: A mathematician’s view a half century later
- Four literary men comment on mathematics: Henry James, George Santayana, Paul Valéry, and Isaiah Berlin
- The media and mathematics look at each other
- New winds blowing in applied mathematics