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Peter Lax, Mathematician: An Illustrated Memoir

Product Description: This book is a biography of one of the most famous and influential living mathematicians, Peter Lax. He is virtually unique as a preeminent leader in both pure and applied mathematics, fields which are often seen as competing and incompatible...read more

By Reuben Hersh

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9781470417086 | Amer Mathematical Society, February 12, 2015, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: This book is a biography of one of the most famous and influential living mathematicians, Peter Lax.

Experiencing Mathematics: What Do We Do, When We Do Mathematics?

Product Description: Most mathematicians, when asked about the nature and meaning of mathematics, vacillate between the two unrealistic poles of Platonism and formalism. By looking carefully at what mathematicians really do when they are doing mathematics, Reuben Hersh offers an escape from this trap...read more

By Reuben Hersh

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9780821894200 | Amer Mathematical Society, February 7, 2014, cover price $39.00 | About this edition: Most mathematicians, when asked about the nature and meaning of mathematics, vacillate between the two unrealistic poles of Platonism and formalism.

Loving & Hating Mathematics: Challenging the Myths of Mathematical Life

Product Description: Mathematics is often thought of as the coldest expression of pure reason. But few subjects provoke hotter emotions--and inspire more love and hatred--than mathematics. And although math is frequently idealized as floating above the messiness of human life, its story is nothing if not human; often, it is all too human...read more

By Reuben Hersh and Vera John-Steiner

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9780691142470 | Princeton Univ Pr, December 13, 2010, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Mathematics is often thought of as the coldest expression of pure reason.

Guaranteed Heartbreak.

By Reuben Hersh

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9781568812373 | A K Peters Ltd, February 11, 2008, cover price $29.95

18 Unconventional Essays on the Nature of Mathematics

By Reuben Hersh (editor)

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9780387257174 | Springer Verlag, November 8, 2005, cover price $109.00

New Mexico Mathematics Contest Problem Book

Product Description: The New Mexico Mathematics Contest for high-school students has been held annually since 1966. Each November, thousands of middle- and high-school students from all over New Mexico converge to battle with elementary but tricky math problems...read more

By Liong-shin Hahn and Reuben Hersh (foreword by)

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9780826335340 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, September 1, 2005, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: The New Mexico Mathematics Contest for high-school students has been held annually since 1966.

Descartes' Dream: The World According To Mathematics

Product Description: "A passionate plea against the use of formal mathematical reasoning as a method for solving mankind's problems. . . . An antidote to the Cartesian view that mathematical and scientific knowledge will suffice to solve the central problems of human existence...read more

By Philip J. Davis and Reuben Hersh

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9780151252602 | Harcourt, October 1, 1986, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Examines the impact of mathematics on our social life and on our perceptions of reality, knowledge, and time, ranging from ancient Egyptian land surveys to Descartes' work

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9780486442525 | Dover Pubns, March 24, 2005, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: "A passionate plea against the use of formal mathematical reasoning as a method for solving mankind's problems.

9780395431542 | Houghton Mifflin, August 1, 1987, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Examines the impact of mathematics on our social life and on our perceptions of reality, knowledge, and time

What Is Mathematics, Really?

Tries to refine the philosophy of mathematics to reflect what mathematicians really do, and argues that mathematics must be understood in a social context

By Reuben Hersh

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9780195113686 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 21, 1997, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Tries to refine the philosophy of mathematics to reflect what mathematicians really do, and argues that mathematics must be understood in a social context

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9780195130874 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 8, 1999, cover price $24.99

The Companion Guide to the Mathematical Experience

Product Description: The Companion Guide to The Mathematical Experience, Study Edition has been created as a teaching tool, not only for the teacher and the student, but also for those students who are potential teachers. Its major purpose is to enhance the value of The Mathematical Experience, Study Edition as a textbook for teachers and to provide content and method for prospective teachers...read more

By Philip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh and Elena Anne Marchisotto

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9780817638498 | Birkhauser, November 1, 1995, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: The Companion Guide to The Mathematical Experience, Study Edition has been created as a teaching tool, not only for the teacher and the student, but also for those students who are potential teachers.

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