This is a wonderful book, unique and engaging. Diaconis and Graham manage to convey the awe and marvels of mathematics, and of… — Barry Mazur Copy Share Image
Mathematical objects are determined by - and understood by - the network of relationships they enjoy with all the other objects of their species. — Barry Mazur Copy Share Image
In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and now ...… — Barry Mazur Copy Share Image
Sometimes a line of mathematical research extending through decades can be thought of as one long conversation in which many mathematicians take part. This… — Barry Mazur Copy Share Image
There is an underlying timelessness in the basic conversation that is mathematics. — Barry Mazur Copy Share Image
The proof of Fermat's Last Theorem underscores how stable mathematics is through the centuries - how mathematics is one of humanity's long continuous conversations… — Barry Mazur Copy Share Image
This is a wonderful book, unique and engaging. Diaconis and Graham manage to convey the awe and marvels of mathematics, and of magic tricks,… — Barry Mazur Copy Share Image
