{"product_id":"152826","title":"All of us mathematicians are a little crazy ","description":"\u003ccenter\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/tmgdisk01.cafe24.com\/images\/vs\/4172\/sv\/WQtU9MQ9fyZ93XsqYRWkJZ.png?v=1764949952\" style=\"max-width:100%;max-height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center;font-size:30px;font-weight:bolder;line-height:1.6em\"\u003e All of us mathematicians are a little crazy \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd 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style=\"text-align:left;word-break:break-all;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eBook Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e A biography of the Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős. \u003cbr\u003eHe traveled to 25 countries with only a few clothes and math notebooks in one bag and published over 1,500 math papers in his lifetime, but he couldn't even tie his own shoelaces and was afraid of using public transportation.\u003cbr\u003e A story about mathematicians that even people who hate math 'crazy' will find enjoyable.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eindex\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e 1.\u003cbr\u003e A man who lived for 2.5 billion years\u003cbr\u003e 2.\u003cbr\u003e That's what's in God's book\u003cbr\u003e 3.\u003cbr\u003e Epji's Riddle\u003cbr\u003e 4.\u003cbr\u003e Conflict between Sam and Joe\u003cbr\u003e 5.\u003cbr\u003e Einstein and Dostoevsky\u003cbr\u003e 6.\u003cbr\u003e Worst case scenario, an expert\u003cbr\u003e 7.\u003cbr\u003e Marginal grudge\u003cbr\u003e 8.\u003cbr\u003e The essence was created by God\u003cbr\u003e 9.\u003cbr\u003e The probability of picking a goat\u003cbr\u003e 10.\u003cbr\u003e Party of the Survivors\u003cbr\u003e 11.\u003cbr\u003e All of us mathematicians are a little crazy\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eInto the book\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e This is truly a paradox of mathematics.\u003cbr\u003e No matter how much mathematicians ignore real life, they actually create the best tools we need to understand the world. \u003cbr\u003eThe Greeks studied ellipses for no particular reason.\u003cbr\u003e And two thousand years later, astronomers discovered that an ellipse is the way the planets in our solar system orbit the sun.\u003cbr\u003e In 1854, the German mathematician Bernhard Riemann began to wonder what would happen if, for no apparent reason, he denied Euclid's parallel postulate.\u003cbr\u003e It was a ridiculous assumption that parallel lines might one day meet.\u003cbr\u003e His non-Euclidean geometry replaced the Euclidean plane with the bizarre abstraction of curved space.\u003cbr\u003e And 60 years later, Einstein argued that curved space was the shape of the universe.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e --- p.219\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e For Erdös, mathematics was a wonderful synthesis of science and art.\u003cbr\u003e First of all, mathematics can be said to be the science of certainty because its conclusions are logically inviolable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMathematics also has an aesthetic aspect.\u003cbr\u003e Guessing can be obvious or sudden.\u003cbr\u003e The results can be trivial or beautiful.\u003cbr\u003e The proof may be confusing, surprising, or, as Erdös likes to say, \"in God's book.\"\u003cbr\u003e For Erdös, mathematics was a wonderful synthesis of science and art.\u003cbr\u003e First of all, mathematics can be said to be the science of certainty because its conclusions are logically inviolable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Mathematics also has an aesthetic aspect.\u003cbr\u003e Guessing can be obvious or sudden.\u003cbr\u003e The results can be trivial or beautiful.\u003cbr\u003e The proof may be confusing, surprising, or, as Erdös likes to say, \"in God's book.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e --- p.61\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e At the urging of friends who were concerned about drug addiction, he quit drugs for 30 days, but Erdish said, \"Thanks to you, I have proven that I am not a drug addict. \u003cbr\u003eBut I couldn't do unification during that time. (Omitted) You set my math back by a month.' He soon started taking the medication again, and his math improved that much.\u003cbr\u003e At the urging of friends who were concerned about drug addiction, he quit drugs for 30 days, but Erdish said, \"Thanks to you, I have proven that I am not a drug addict.\u003cbr\u003e But I couldn't do unification during that time. (Omitted) You set my math back by a month.' He soon started taking the medication again, and his math improved that much.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e --- p.29\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e A mathematician's patterns should be as beautiful as those of a painter or poet.\u003cbr\u003e Ideas, like colors or words, must be connected in a harmonious way.\u003cbr\u003e In this regard, beauty becomes the first criterion.\u003cbr\u003e There is no place in this world for ugly mathematics. \u003cbr\u003eIt would be extremely difficult to define the beauty of mathematics.\u003cbr\u003e But this is also true of other beauties.\u003cbr\u003e We may not know what the definition of beautiful poetry is.\u003cbr\u003e That doesn't mean I can't feel the beauty of a beautiful poem when I read it.\u003cbr\u003e --- The father of modern analytic number theory, GH Hardy The patterns of a mathematician should be as beautiful as those of a painter or a poet.\u003cbr\u003e Ideas, like colors or words, must be connected in a harmonious way.\u003cbr\u003e In this regard, beauty becomes the first criterion.\u003cbr\u003e There is no place in this world for ugly mathematics.\u003cbr\u003e It would be extremely difficult to define the beauty of mathematics.\u003cbr\u003e But this is also true of other beauties.\u003cbr\u003e We may not know what the definition of beautiful poetry is.\u003cbr\u003e That doesn't mean I can't feel the beauty of a beautiful poem when I read it. \u003cbr\u003e--- G. H. Hardy, the father of modern analytic number theory\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e --- p.\u003cbr\u003e 38\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e It is said that many mathematicians ended up studying mathematics as a way to escape from the world.\u003cbr\u003e Einstein said this:\u003cbr\u003e 'I agree with Schopenhauer.\u003cbr\u003e One of the most powerful motives that drives humans to art and science is the desire to escape from the shackles of pain, desolation, and ever-changing desires.\u003cbr\u003e A noble-minded personality seeks to escape from the personal world of everyday life into a world of objective perception and reflection.\u003cbr\u003e 'It is said that many mathematicians ended up studying mathematics as a way to escape from the secular world.\u003cbr\u003e Einstein said this:\u003cbr\u003e 'I agree with Schopenhauer. \u003cbr\u003eOne of the most powerful motives that drives humans to art and science is the desire to escape from the shackles of pain, desolation, and ever-changing desires.\u003cbr\u003e A noble-minded personality seeks to escape from the personal world of everyday life into a world of objective perception and reflection.\u003cbr\u003e '\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e --- p.352\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e The first time I was greatly indebted to Airdish was 30 years ago at a hotel.\u003cbr\u003e At the time, I was staying at the Parco del Principi Hotel in Rome.\u003cbr\u003e One day he came to me and surprised me by saying this.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Guy, would you like a cup of coffee?'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I'm not much of a coffee drinker, but I was intrigued that this great math genius chose me as his coffee partner.\u003cbr\u003e A cup of coffee costs a dollar everywhere these days, but back then it was a lot of money.\u003cbr\u003e As we pulled out our coffees, Paul said:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Guy, you are very rich. \u003cbr\u003eSo, please lend me just $100.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I was surprised once again.\u003cbr\u003e I wasn't surprised by his request, but rather by myself for readily accepting it.\u003cbr\u003e Once again, Airdish knew me better than I did.\u003cbr\u003e Since then I have realized that I am extremely rich.\u003cbr\u003e I am incredibly rich, not in the material sense of having everything I need, but in the spiritual sense of having a love for mathematics and having discovered Erdös firsthand.\u003cbr\u003e -Richard Guy I owed a great debt to Erdish 30 years ago in a hotel.\u003cbr\u003e At the time, I was staying at the Parco del Principi Hotel in Rome.\u003cbr\u003e One day he came to me and surprised me by saying this.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Guy, would you like a cup of coffee?'\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eI'm not much of a coffee drinker, but I was intrigued that this great math genius chose me as his coffee partner.\u003cbr\u003e A cup of coffee costs a dollar everywhere these days, but back then it was a lot of money.\u003cbr\u003e As we pulled out our coffees, Paul said:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Guy, you are very rich.\u003cbr\u003e So, please lend me just $100.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I was surprised once again.\u003cbr\u003e I wasn't surprised by his request, but rather by myself for readily accepting it.\u003cbr\u003e Once again, Airdish knew me better than I did.\u003cbr\u003e Since then I have realized that I am extremely rich.\u003cbr\u003e I am incredibly rich, not in the material sense of having everything I need, but in the spiritual sense of having a love for mathematics and having discovered Erdös firsthand.\u003cbr\u003e -Richard Guy\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e --- p.176\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e  \u003cdiv\u003eI guessed he (Airdish) didn't think much of my talent.\u003cbr\u003e But my friends thought differently.\u003cbr\u003e He said he thought my research was okay.\u003cbr\u003e So for the next ten years, I visited the University of Louisville once a year and stayed for a week.\u003cbr\u003e His first visit to Louisville was in 1983.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e At the time I was a bachelor and he stayed with me.\u003cbr\u003e It was a very exciting experience.\u003cbr\u003e I had already heard that he worked very hard.\u003cbr\u003e So I was determined to work hard too.\u003cbr\u003e But I never imagined I would work that hard.\u003cbr\u003e On the first day, we studied math until one o'clock in the morning.\u003cbr\u003e I was completely exhausted.\u003cbr\u003e I went to the upstairs bedroom and he slept in the guest room on the first floor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBut at 4:30 in the morning, I heard the sound of a jar rattling in the room.\u003cbr\u003e He kept making noise.\u003cbr\u003e It was a signal to me to get up quickly.\u003cbr\u003e I stumbled downstairs around six o'clock.\u003cbr\u003e Do you know what the first thing he said to me when he saw me was? It wasn't \"Good morning\" or \"Did you sleep well?\"\u003cbr\u003e He said this:\u003cbr\u003e 'Let n be an integer and k be...' I guessed that he (Erdy) was not very impressed with my talent.\u003cbr\u003e But my friends thought differently.\u003cbr\u003e He said he thought my research was okay.\u003cbr\u003e So for the next ten years, I visited the University of Louisville once a year and stayed for a week.\u003cbr\u003e His first visit to Louisville was in 1983.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e At the time I was a bachelor and he stayed with me.\u003cbr\u003e It was a very exciting experience. \u003cbr\u003eI had already heard that he worked very hard.\u003cbr\u003e So I was determined to work hard too.\u003cbr\u003e But I never imagined I would work that hard.\u003cbr\u003e On the first day, we studied math until one o'clock in the morning.\u003cbr\u003e I was completely exhausted.\u003cbr\u003e I went to the upstairs bedroom and he slept in the guest room on the first floor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But at 4:30 in the morning, I heard the sound of a jar rattling in the room.\u003cbr\u003e He kept making noise.\u003cbr\u003e It was a signal to me to get up quickly.\u003cbr\u003e I stumbled downstairs around six o'clock.\u003cbr\u003e Do you know what the first thing he said to me when he saw me was? It wasn't \"Good morning\" or \"Did you sleep well?\"\u003cbr\u003e He said this:\u003cbr\u003e 'Let n be an integer and k...'\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e --- p.338-339\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e  \u003cdiv\u003e...he had a remarkable talent for presenting problems that were slightly more difficult than the opponent's ability to solve.\u003cbr\u003e It's very easy to pose an impossible problem.\u003cbr\u003e But he only posed problems that would make the other person more confident and engaged in math if they solved them.\u003cbr\u003e It was like putting one more climbing nail into a rock to help you climb higher...\u003cbr\u003e ...he had a remarkable talent for presenting problems that were slightly more difficult than the opponent's ability to solve.\u003cbr\u003e It's very easy to pose an impossible problem.\u003cbr\u003e But he only posed problems that would make the other person more confident and engaged in math if they solved them.\u003cbr\u003e It was like putting one more climbing nail into a rock to help you climb higher...\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e --- p.60-61\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e  \u003cdiv\u003e...he had a remarkable talent for presenting problems that were slightly more difficult than the opponent's ability to solve.\u003cbr\u003e It's very easy to pose an impossible problem.\u003cbr\u003e But he only posed problems that would make the other person more confident and engaged in math if they solved them.\u003cbr\u003e It was like putting one more climbing nail into a rock to help you climb higher...\u003cbr\u003e ...he had a remarkable talent for presenting problems that were slightly more difficult than the opponent's ability to solve.\u003cbr\u003e It's very easy to pose an impossible problem.\u003cbr\u003e But he only posed problems that would make the other person more confident and engaged in math if they solved them.\u003cbr\u003e It was like putting one more climbing nail into a rock to help you climb higher...\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e --- p.60-61 \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%;padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e GOODS SPECIFICS\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n \u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e- \u003cstrong\u003eDate of issue:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 31, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003ePage count, weight, size:\u003c\/strong\u003e 373 pages | 563g | 148*210*30mm\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9788988907009\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8988907000 \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/center\u003e","brand":"LIBRAIRIE COREENNE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43893940584490,"sku":"152826","price":25.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0683\/2750\/5962\/files\/db7b2662f0403321a0f7076aeaaaf7d3.jpg?v=1765425355","url":"https:\/\/librairie.coreenne.fr\/en\/products\/152826","provider":"LIBRAIRIE COREENNE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}