The best of all possible worlds : mathematics and destiny /
Ekeland, I. 1944-
The best of all possible worlds : mathematics and destiny / Ivar Ekeland. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006. - 207 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-198) and index.
Keeping the beat -- The birth of modern science -- The least action principle -- From computations to geometry -- Poincaré and beyond -- Pandora's box -- May the best one win -- The end of nature -- The common good -- A personal conclusion.
0226199940 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226199948
2006001984
GBA671719 bnb
013536627 Uk
Science--Mathematics.
Mathematical analysis.
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.
Human behavior.
Ethics.
Q172 / .E36 2006
510 EKE 2006
The best of all possible worlds : mathematics and destiny / Ivar Ekeland. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006. - 207 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-198) and index.
Keeping the beat -- The birth of modern science -- The least action principle -- From computations to geometry -- Poincaré and beyond -- Pandora's box -- May the best one win -- The end of nature -- The common good -- A personal conclusion.
0226199940 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226199948
2006001984
GBA671719 bnb
013536627 Uk
Science--Mathematics.
Mathematical analysis.
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.
Human behavior.
Ethics.
Q172 / .E36 2006
510 EKE 2006