Trefethen's index cards : forty years of notes about people, words and mathematics /
Acclaimed mathematician Lloyd N Trefethen, Professor of Numerical Analysis at Oxford University, has created an intellectual diary, marking the development of his interests and ideas, since his teenage years. This book collects these ideas, which represent observations in subjects ranging from astro...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Singapore :
World Scientific Pub.,
©2011.
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ISBN: | 9789814360708 9814360708 1283433982 9781283433983 9786613433985 6613433985 |
Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Ego
- Kids
- Aging and death
- Sex
- Living with others
- The meaning of life
- Politics and society
- Cold war nukes
- Education
- Britain
- Famous people
- Optimizing your life
- The life of the professor
- Music
- Words
- Writing and literature
- Memory
- Misperceptions
- Knowledge and truth
- Analogies
- Bad logic
- God and religion
- Good and evil.