Experiencing Mathematics

Download or read book Experiencing Mathematics written by Reuben Hersh and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question "What am I doing?" haunts many creative people, researchers, and teachers. Mathematics, poetry, and philosophy can look from the outside sometimes as ballet en pointe, and at other times as the flight of the bumblebee. Reuben Hersh looks at mathematics from the inside; he collects his papers written over several decades, their edited versions, and new chapters in his book Experiencing Mathematics, which is practical, philosophical, and in some places as intensely personal as Swann's madeleine.-Yuri Manin, Max Planck Institute, Bonn, Germany What happens when mid-career a mathemat.