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The two cultures
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ISBN: 9780511819940 9780521457309 0511001118 9780511001116 0511819943 0521457300 9780521065207 0521065208 9781107387775 1107387779 0521457300 0521065208 9781107606142 0511092148 Year: 1969 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The notion that our society, its education system and its intellectual life, is characterised by a split between two cultures - the arts or humanities on one hand, and the sciences on the other - has a long history. But it was C. P. Snow's Rede lecture of 1959 that brought it to prominence and began a public debate that is still raging in the media today. This 50th anniversary printing of The Two Cultures and its successor piece, A Second Look (in which Snow responded to the controversy four years later) features an introduction by Stefan Collini, charting the history and context of the debate, its implications and its afterlife. The importance of science and technology in policy run largely by non-scientists, the future for education and research, and the problem of fragmentation threatening hopes for a common culture are just some of the subjects discussed.


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A mathematician's apology
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ISBN: 9781107604636 110760463X 9781107295599 1139893882 1107390583 1107395380 1107387663 1107398991 1107295599 9781107398993 9781107386853 1107386853 9781139893886 9781107390584 9781107395381 9781107387669 1322521352 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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G. H. Hardy was one of this century's finest mathematical thinkers, renowned among his contemporaries as a 'real mathematician ... the purest of the pure'. He was also, as C. P. Snow recounts in his Foreword, 'unorthodox, eccentric, radical, ready to talk about anything'. This 'apology', written in 1940, offers a brilliant and engaging account of mathematics as very much more than a science; when it was first published, Graham Greene hailed it alongside Henry James's notebooks as 'the best account of what it was like to be a creative artist'. C. P. Snow's Foreword gives sympathetic and witty insights into Hardy's life, with its rich store of anecdotes concerning his collaboration with the brilliant Indian mathematician Ramanujan, his idiosyncrasies and his passion for cricket. This is a unique account of the fascination of mathematics and of one of its most compelling exponents in modern times.


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A mathematician's apology
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ISBN: 0521095778 0521052076 9780521052078 9780521095778 Year: 1973 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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L'Apologie d'un mathématicien : Ramanujan, un mathématicien indien ; Bertrand Russell et le Collège de la Trinité
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ISBN: 2701105307 9782701105307 Year: 1985 Publisher: Paris : Belin,

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