LSU Press Paperback Original"This book can be read as a kind of antidote to the heady bumbo-jumbo jibber-jabber of our detached poetic times. It believes in the world without embarrassment---the one w
The scariest sentence in the English language is brief, threatening, and hopeful. It is deceptive, simple, and as common as water: anything is possible. This second collection by Steve Scafidi is haun
Sometimes a fact swings down like a hammer and we are changed. The fact of loss, the fact of desire, and all the wild, unruly facts of history hammer down and sparks fly up. This, then, is a collectio
本書講述了早期哈佛大學乃至整個美國的數學發展史，讀者可以從中了解到哈佛數學系如何從只有一個教職人員發展到***研究中心，以及哈佛在美國數學發展中起到的重要作用。全書內容包括：開端，Benjamin Peirce與“引出必要結論”的科學，Osgood、B?cher和美國數學的偉大覺醒，George David Birkhoff的強勢登場，分析學和代數學與拓撲學相遇，最復雜
