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A Mathematician Engaged in the Century / Un math?maticien aux prises avec le si?cle

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Product Code: 9782738104625
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A Mathematician Engaged in the Century / Un math?maticien aux prises avec le si?cle

$73.84
 
Laurent Schwartz was, along with Jean-Paul Sartre, the epitomy of the committed intellectual of post-war France. Having been awarded the Fields Medal in mathematics, he is considered one the most important mathematicians of this century. His memoirs unveil, in a most moving manner and in all sincerity, the different facets of his existence.He tells us how, when he was young, he reconstructed the whole edifice of mathematics for his personal use and how this "cathedral" allowed him to make his discoveries. He also tells us how he discovered TrotskyI'm before the war, at the Ecole Normal of the Rue d'Ulm and how, because of this, he didn't enlist in the Resistance, but rather hid, stopping all mathematics in order to remain on the alert. He also tells us about his militancy after the Second World War, against the wars in iedo-China, in Algeria, in Vietnam and the dictatorship in the Soviet Union.A two-facetted entity, Laurent Schwartz then worked in the reform of math teachings at all levels, from gradeschool to university, to promote the spirit of research.His memoirs allow us to discover one the most major intellectual figures of our times.


Author: Laurent Schwartz
Publisher: Odile Jacob
Publication Date: Feb 25, 1997
Number of Pages: 820 pages
Binding: Paperback or Softback
ISBN-10: 2738104622
ISBN-13: 9782738104625
 

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