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The Quintessential Mathematician

The Quintessential Mathematician

Constance Reid, foremost mathematical biographer of our time, wrote a biography of David Hilbert, the greatest mathematician of the first half of the 20th century. The result is pure celebration of mathematics. While the story is about the mathematician, the novel is also a vibrant history of mathematics at around Hilbert’s time. Math was seen in [...]