The best of all possible worlds: mathematics and destiny/
Ekeland, I. 1944-
The best of all possible worlds: mathematics and destiny/ Ivar Ekeland. - Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. - 207 p.: ill.; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-198) and index.
Keeping the beat -- The birth of modern science -- The least action principle -- From computations to geometry -- Poincarâe and beyond -- Pandora's box -- May the best one win -- The end of nature -- The common good -- A personal conclusion.
0226199940 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226199948 (cloth : alk. paper)
2006001984
GBA671719 bnb
Science--Mathematics.
Mathematical analysis.
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.
Human behavior.
Ethics.
509 / E36b
The best of all possible worlds: mathematics and destiny/ Ivar Ekeland. - Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. - 207 p.: ill.; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-198) and index.
Keeping the beat -- The birth of modern science -- The least action principle -- From computations to geometry -- Poincarâe and beyond -- Pandora's box -- May the best one win -- The end of nature -- The common good -- A personal conclusion.
0226199940 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226199948 (cloth : alk. paper)
2006001984
GBA671719 bnb
Science--Mathematics.
Mathematical analysis.
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.
Human behavior.
Ethics.
509 / E36b