COVIDiary of mathematicians / Mathematical Society "Archimedes."
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- text
- unmediated
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- 9788661750960
- 8661750962
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Main Library | NonFiction | 362.1962 C873 | Available | 33111010827679 |
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."