A singular mathematical promenade
A singular mathematical promenade by Etienne Ghys
2017 | ISBN: 2847889396 | English | 310 pages | PDF | 36 MB
2017 | ISBN: 2847889396 | English | 310 pages | PDF | 36 MB
A stroll in the mathematical world. This is neither an elementary introduction to the theory of singularities, nor a specialized treatise containing many new theorems. The purpose of this little book is to invite the reader on a mathematical promenade. We pay a visit to Hipparchus, Newton and Gauss, but also to many contemporary mathematicians. We play with a bit of algebra, topology, geometry, complex analysis, combinatorics, and computer science. Hopefully motivated undergraduates and more advanced mathematicians will enjoy some of these panoramas.