书籍介绍
这并不是一本关于数学的书，而是一群数学家的自白。玛丽安娜·库克用黑白摄影捕捉到的，是二十几位仍在世的杰出数学家——菲尔兹奖得主、沃尔夫奖得主、功成名就者与新秀——在镜头前亲笔写下的短促自述。他们谈如何成为数学家、为何热爱、如何面对挑战，也谈选择冷门领域的孤独、把几何直觉翻译成文字的挣扎，以及数学与音乐、与艺术的相通。读者最难忘的，往往是这种“与巨人面对面聊天”的亲切：响当当的名字背后，是鲜活、可爱、特立独行的个体。它适合所有对数学怀有好奇的人，无论你是否擅长——因为真正打动人的，从来不是公式，而是公式背后的人。
AI导读
核心看点
- 92幅黑白摄影作品，展现数学家真实风采
- 收录塞尔、纳什等顶尖学者自述，分享心路
- 探讨数学之美与乐趣，传递学科独特魅力
读者共识
- 数学家形象亲切可爱，打破刻板高冷印象
- 排版与翻译质量参差不齐，体验有差异
- 虽内容简略，但能激发对数学的热爱
精彩摘录
- "The imprint of the world in our minds is not photographic; all the brain knows of the outside world is a chaotic sequence of electric impulses and out of these it creates a structural entity: our perception of what we see and hear. Most of the time, an adult's brain talks to itself and creates more "
- "I have always preferred working in unpopular areas of mathematics. I recognize the benefits of working in popular areas—a community of experts to discuss problems with, a group of friends you see regularly at conferences, a reference group to compare yourself to, a crowd to instantly appreciate your"
- "I prefer to avoid mainstream mathematics research and work on my own. One problem with this is that the most productive areas are (almost by definition) part of mainstream research and the remaining areas are usually rather barren. My own research reminds me of someone picking over a large junkyard "
- "In a similar way I find equal difficulty when asked, what kind of mathematician are you? I usually evade the question by just saying that I am a geometer in the broad sense, secure in the comfort that "God is a geometer." For me, just as there is only one world, even if parts of it are more familiar"
- "I have always felt that mathematics is a language like music. To learn it systematically, it is necessary to master small pieces and gradually add another piece and then another. In a sense, mathematics is like the classical Chinese language—very polished and very elegant. Sitting in a good mathemat"
- "Mathematicians lie somewhere between artists and writers on the one hand and physicists, chemists, and biologists on the other. We try to get natural problems from the physical world, but we also try to create problems based on the development of our understanding of nature. It's like an artist who "
- "To explain the power and beauty of mathematics to outsiders is difficult. Mathematics takes ideas from the external world and makes them abstract, juggles them around to creat structure, and then spews them back with amazingly braod and useful consequences. The best comparison that most of us have i"
- "My mother was a mathematician. She studied Hilbert's sixteenth problem and made an outstanding contribution. This is a problem of studying a dynamical system governed by two polynomials."
用户评论
就是数学家的自我简介，茶余饭后当做休闲读物吧
看着书里那么多数学家的照片，并没有秃顶，悬着的心可以放下了。
http://book.douban.com/subject/3894571/的中译版，如今中译速度越来越快，感谢出版社和译者。中译版排版和印刷质量当然不可与原版同日而语，但是好在价格便宜。本书一半摄影一般数学，原版两者兼顾，中译版由于价格原因，只剩下数学了。
再说这本书写得比较简单，每个人谈论的东西都是太少了，这一点内容根本就是没出一样，但是还是有几个人的文章，对我有很大的帮助和启发。所以我给高分，这张书非喜勿买，不然就得失望
本来应该是不错的主题摄影作品集，结果一大堆各位当代数学家辛苦写下的自传性质的小随笔，消解了其中的优雅，而变的更加特立独行，因为几乎所有人的内容都遵循一种既定模式，我们不妨称之为“数学家的无聊模式”，该模式无外乎“良好的家庭环境”，“童年的启蒙”，“本科、研究生、博士”，完全令人不知所云的“贡献”，“数学家之间的友谊”，对了还有那中二无比的“美、数学……”……总之，这本书存在的真正意义在于告诉我们两个事实：1、当代数学家刨去尚年轻的、女性、发际线可疑的绝大多数头发都存在较大片脱落，这是真的！2、女性数学家也是很有成就的，而且不少可以称之为美女（干巴爹！骚年们）。当然这些只是从摄影师选择的92位世界顶尖的数学家中得出的不负责的结论。真实情况，我想真正关心的人也冷暖自知，不再多言～
来看看当代数学家眼中的数学，企图从他们对数学的情怀中唤醒自己对数学更深的爱以及获得一些数学上的灵感和经验
美妙！
读的英文版。
数学最公平，对所有人，近乎死亡，无人能选择数学，他们都是被数学选择的人。
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