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The best of all possible worlds: mathematics and destiny/ Ivar Ekeland.
Language: English Original language: French Publication details: Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.Description: 207 p.: ill.; 24 cmISBN:- 0226199940 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780226199948 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 509 E36b
Contents:
Keeping the beat -- The birth of modern science -- The least action principle -- From computations to geometry -- Poincarâe and beyond -- Pandora's box -- May the best one win -- The end of nature -- The common good -- A personal conclusion.
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| 508 M271s 1936 IMPA Séries lacunaires/ | 508 V334n 1937 IMPA La notion de capacité/ | 508.1 M834r 1959 IMPA Reflections of a mathematician. | 509 E36b 2006 IMPA The best of all possible worlds: mathematics and destiny/ | 509 M691t 1994 IMPA De las tortugas a las estrellas: una introducción a la ciencia/ | 509 N572h 1974 IMPA The heritage of Copernicus: theories "pleasing to the mind"./ | 509 P586s 1905 IMPA La science moderne et son état actuel/ |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-198) and index.
Keeping the beat -- The birth of modern science -- The least action principle -- From computations to geometry -- Poincarâe and beyond -- Pandora's box -- May the best one win -- The end of nature -- The common good -- A personal conclusion.
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