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The Joy of Mathematics A Conversation with Ian Stewart.
This book is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Ian Stewart, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick and bestselling science and science fiction writer. For Ian Stewart, mathematics is far more than dreary arithmetic, while mathematical thinking...
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| Language: | English |
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Toronto :
Open Agenda Publishing,
2021.
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| Series: | Ideas Roadshow Conversations Ser.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Intro -- A Note on the Text -- Introduction -- The Conversation -- I. Fear and Loathing -- II. Doing Mathematics -- III. Teaching Mathematics -- IV. Mathematics and Gender -- V. Mathematics Everywhere -- Continuing the Conversation | |
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