Rota’s writing Rota wrote extensively about mathematics and mathematicians. Many of his essays are col-lected in the book Indiscrete Thoughts, from which I took the passages that I will show you. A good summary of Rota’s writing style is given by Reuben Hirsch in his introduction to Indiscrete Thoughts: “He loves contradiction. He loves to shock. Indiscrete Thoughts Reviewed by Steven G. Krantz Indiscrete Thoughts Gian-Carlo Rota Edited by Fabrizio Palombi pages Birkhäuser, Boston Softcover $ The period beginning in and on into the early s was a golden age for American math-ematics. Postwar euphoria combined with an in-flux of stunning talent from Europe to create a. Gian-Carlo Rota is the author of Indiscrete Thoughts ( avg rating, ratings, 15 reviews, published ), Μαθηματικά και Φιλοσοφία – Το χρονικό μι /5.
Book Review:Indiscrete Thoughts Gian-Carlo Rota, Fabrizio Palombi. Rota preaches Nietzsche's sermon to mathematicians: only that which has a history has a meaning. Mathematics, he argues, is historical in an essential way (p. ). Rota's own history is unapologetically idiosyncratic--indeed, he calls it "gossip" (p. 38). , Indiscrete Thoughts by Gian-Carlo Rota, edited by Fabrizio Palombi. www.doorway.ru 11/13/96 AM Page JANUARY NOTICES OF THE AMS 23 ing from the mathematics lectures I have been listening to for the past forty-six years. a. Every lecture should make only one main. Indiscrete Thoughts gives a glimpse into a world that has seldom been described that of science and technology as seen through the eyes of a mathematician. The era covered by this book, to , was surely one of the golden ages of science as well as the American university. Cherished myths are debunked along the way as Gian-Carlo Rota takes pleasure in portraying, warts and all, some of.
Indiscrete Thoughts Reviewed by Steven G. Krantz Indiscrete Thoughts Gian-Carlo Rota Edited by Fabrizio Palombi pages Birkhäuser, Boston Softcover $ The period beginning in and on into the early s was a golden age for American math-ematics. Postwar euphoria combined with an in-flux of stunning talent from Europe to create a. Gian-Carlo Rota is the author of Indiscrete Thoughts ( avg rating, ratings, 15 reviews, published ), Μαθηματικά και Φιλοσοφία – Το χρονικό μι. Renowned mathematician Gian-Carlo Rota's book Indiscrete Thoughts is not about mathematics. It is about mathematicians, the way they think, and the world in which they live. It is pages of Rota calling it like he sees it, sandwiched in between two forwards, an introduction by the author himself, and an epilogue by the editor.
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