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Letters to a Young Mathematician Export

(26 March 2007)

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Mathematician Ian Stewart tells readers what he wishes he had known when hewas a student. He takes up subjects ranging from the philosophical to thepractical--what mathematics is and why it's worth doing, the relationshipbetween logic and proof, the role of beauty in mathematical thinking, thefuture of mathematics, how to deal with the peculiarities of the mathematicalcommunity, and many others.


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