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Author Trefethen, Lloyd N. (Lloyd Nicholas)

Title Trefethen's index cards : forty years of notes about people, words and mathematics / Lloyd N
Published Singapore : World Scientific Pub., ©2011
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 368 pages)
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
Summary 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 astronomy to family life, and from music to politics
Notes Includes index
English
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Subject Trefethen, Lloyd N. (Lloyd Nicholas)
SUBJECT Trefethen, Lloyd N. (Lloyd Nicholas) fast
Subject Mathematicians -- Quotations
Mathematics -- Quotations, maxims, etc
MATHEMATICS -- Essays.
MATHEMATICS -- Pre-Calculus.
MATHEMATICS -- Reference.
Mathematicians
Mathematics
Genre/Form Quotations
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011499237
ISBN 9789814360708
9814360708
1283433982
9781283433983
9786613433985
6613433985