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Mathematics: The New Golden Age (Paperback)

by Keith J. Devlin (Author)

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Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Columbia University Press; Rev Sub edition (February 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 023111639X
ISBN-13: 978-0231116398
Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15 x 2.3 cm
Shipping Weight: 454 g

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"Excellent... He presents us with a series of colorful personalities and seminal ideas [and] conveys all of the power, beauty and excitement of mathematics... Well-written, informative." -- Mathematical Association of America (of the first ed.) "A beautiful, rich book." -- Guardian (of the first ed.) "Devlin's choice of material is excellent, and he is to be praised for the clarity and accuracy with which he presents it." -- Martin Gardner, New York Review of Books (of the first ed.) "Devlin makes the beauty of math apparent, the most esoteric of concepts sing. If more scientists wrote with Devlin's simplicity and feeling, the world would be a much more informed place." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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Excellent . . . . He presents us with a series of colorful personalities and seminal ideas [and] conveys all of the power, beauty and excitement of mathematics . . . . Well-written, informative. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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5.0 out of 5 stars well-written and mind-stretching, Sep 20 2000

By	Michael Vanier (Pasadena, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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This is the best popular math book I've ever read. The first edition of this book was responsible for rekindling my interest in pure mathematics after a long layoff (which has persisted to this day). The author covers some topics that are typically covered in popular math books (such as chaos theory and the difficulty of factoring large prime numbers). Fortunately, most of the book is devoted to topics that are rarely dealt with in such books, such as the classification of finite simple groups, the class number problem, and the Riemann hypothesis. The new edition also contains an expanded section on Fermat's last theorem (which has been proved since the first edition came out). What I like about Devlin's style is that he goes into the math to a much more significant extent than most popular science writers and yet still keeps everything easy to understand for anyone with (say) an understanding of basic calculus. The only (minor) criticism I have of the book is that Devlin often gets tantalizingly close to a major result and then begs off with the statement "the full result can only be understood by specialists". Most of the time, this makes little difference, but with the class number problem (which, among other things, explains why exp(sqrt(163)*Pi) is almost an integer), he leads you along a fascinating journey and then doesn't explain the original motivating problem (why exp(sqrt(163)*Pi) is almost an integer). However, this is a minor nit and doesn't significantly detract from a fascinating book.

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