Books I like
Nowadays many mathematical books do not seem to be written by living men who not only know, but doubt and ask and guess, who see details in their true perspective -- light surrounded by darkness -- who, endowed with a limited memory, in the twilight of questioning, discovery, and resignation, weave a connected pattern, imperfect but growing, and colored by infinite gradations of significance. The books of the type I refer to are rather like slot machines which fire at you for the price you pay a medley of axioms, definitions, lemmas, and theorems, and then remain numb and dead however you shake them - Hermann Weyl(From Hermann Weyl's book review of volume 2 of Courant and Hilbert's Methoden der Mathematishen Physik. The review appeared in Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (19938) 602-604. This quote is from page number 602.)
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Gen Links
- What is Algorithmic Algebra?
- Prof. Paul Halmos on How to write Mathematics
- Abhayankar's paper Historical Ramblings in Algebraic Geometry and Related Algebra
- Shiryaev's essay: Everything about Kolmogorov was unusual