| 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 |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Trefethen, Lloyd N. (Lloyd Nicholas)
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Trefethen, Lloyd N. (Lloyd Nicholas) |
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Mathematicians -- Quotations
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Mathematics -- Quotations, maxims, etc
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MATHEMATICS -- Essays.
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MATHEMATICS -- Pre-Calculus.
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MATHEMATICS -- Reference.
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Mathematicians.
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Mathematics.
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| Genre/Form |
Quotations.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2011499237 |
| ISBN |
9789814360708 |
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9814360708 |
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1283433982 |
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9781283433983 |
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9786613433985 |
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6613433985 |
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