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COVIDiary of mathematicians / Mathematical Society "Archimedes."

Material type: TextTextPublication details: Belgrade : Archimedes, 2021Edition: First editionDescription: 200 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9788661750960
  • 8661750962
Subject(s): Summary: Mathematicians are human too, and in this delightful potpourri of "mathematical diaries" kept during the time of Covid, an assortment of lucid minds ponder life in lockdown while navigating careers teaching, writing and thinking about math. Dispersed across multiple nations - Portugal, Spain, India, the USA, and Serbia - The authors reflect on daily minutiae, such as the joys of a Belgrade produce market, while proffering thoughts about the horrors of fascism, the paradoxes of spacetime, and other weighty matters. Interspersed throughout are mathematical puzzles for readers to solve. Surely one of the more warmly idiosyncratic books in the growing pantheon of "corona-lit."
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 362.1962 C873 Available 33111010827679
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Mathematicians are human too, and in this delightful potpourri of "mathematical diaries" kept during the time of Covid, an assortment of lucid minds ponder life in lockdown while navigating careers teaching, writing and thinking about math. Dispersed across multiple nations - Portugal, Spain, India, the USA, and Serbia - The authors reflect on daily minutiae, such as the joys of a Belgrade produce market, while proffering thoughts about the horrors of fascism, the paradoxes of spacetime, and other weighty matters. Interspersed throughout are mathematical puzzles for readers to solve. Surely one of the more warmly idiosyncratic books in the growing pantheon of "corona-lit."

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