| #2237343 in Books | Birkhäuser Boston | 1996-12-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.02 x.81 x5.98l,1.30 | File type: PDF | 280 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Fascinating|By vamosrafa|He's quite a character, and one with a lot of interesting stories.|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Nice autobiography|By Daniel Nathan|I enjoyed it just for the account of Prof. Rota's encounters with other mathematicians. It is a very good autobiography of a mathematician for those w
Indiscrete Thoughts gives a glimpse into a world that has seldom been described - that of science and technology as seen through the eyes of a mathematician. The era covered by this book, 1950 to 1990, was surely one of the golden ages of science and of the American university. Cherished myths are debunked along the way as Gian-Carlo Rota takes pleasure in portraying, warts and all, some of the great scientific personalities of the period. Rota is not afraid of contro...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Indiscrete Thoughts | Gian-Carlo Rota. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
