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Judy Chicago's monumental art installation The Dinner Party was an immediate sensation when it debuted in 1979, and today it is considered the most popular work of art to emerge from the second-wave feminist movement. Jane F. Gerhard examines the piece's popularity to understand how ideas about feminism migrated from activist and intellectual circles into the American mainstream in the last three decades of the twentieth century. More than most social movements, feminism was transmitted and understood through culture-art installations, Ms. Magazine , All in the Family , and thousands of other
Feminism --- Chicago, Judy, --- Criticism and interepretation. --- Dinner party.
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What do pure mathematicians do, and why do they do it? Looking beyond the conventional answers-for the sake of truth, beauty, and practical applications-this book offers an eclectic panorama of the lives and values and hopes and fears of mathematicians in the twenty-first century, assembling material from a startlingly diverse assortment of scholarly, journalistic, and pop culture sources.Drawing on his personal experiences and obsessions as well as the thoughts and opinions of mathematicians from Archimedes and Omar Khayyám to such contemporary giants as Alexander Grothendieck and Robert Langlands, Michael Harris reveals the charisma and romance of mathematics as well as its darker side. In this portrait of mathematics as a community united around a set of common intellectual, ethical, and existential challenges, he touches on a wide variety of questions, such as: Are mathematicians to blame for the 2008 financial crisis? How can we talk about the ideas we were born too soon to understand? And how should you react if you are asked to explain number theory at a dinner party?Disarmingly candid, relentlessly intelligent, and richly entertaining, Mathematics without Apologies takes readers on an unapologetic guided tour of the mathematical life, from the philosophy and sociology of mathematics to its reflections in film and popular music, with detours through the mathematical and mystical traditions of Russia, India, medieval Islam, the Bronx, and beyond.
Mathematics. --- Mathematicians. --- A Mathematician's Apology. --- Against the Day. --- Alexander Grothendieck. --- Archimedes. --- Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture. --- David Hilbert. --- Drinfel'd upper half-spaces. --- Edward Frenkel. --- G. H. Hardy. --- Herbert Mehrtens. --- Joseph Liouville. --- Omar Khayyám. --- Paul Mogré. --- Rites of Love and Math. --- Robert Langlands. --- Thomas Pynchon. --- charisma. --- cohomology. --- congruences. --- dinner party. --- elliptic curves. --- excellence. --- films. --- finance mathematics. --- mathematical concepts. --- mathematical equations. --- mathematical finance. --- mathematical modeling. --- mathematical problems. --- mathematicians. --- mathematics. --- metaphorical veil. --- mind-body problem. --- morality. --- number theory. --- order. --- professional autonomy. --- randomness. --- reality. --- transcendental numbers. --- tricks. --- tricksters. --- unramified coverings.
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