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- The person most responsible for this is clearly the editor (and author of some of the pieces), Fields Medalist Timothy Gowers, who had help from many others, including fellow Fields Medalist Terry Tao.
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Errata tonThe Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics October 23, 2018 1.Page xii, col 2, line 3: replace “Tasleman" by “Taslaman". 2.Page 11, col 1, line 18: replace jx aj< by 0 <jx aj< . 3.Page 18, col 2, line -15: should read “we end up with a factorization p n—x–… a n—x z 1–—x z 2– —x z n–” (the term a nis missing).
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Nov 7, 2008 · For those with a deep interest in understanding such things, this book provides a reasonably accessible, technically precise and thorough account of all of math’s major aspects—from the basics...
Oct 15, 2008 · While they do not quite parallel the Companion to Mathematics these books still give nice overviews of what’s going on in physics. Eberhard Zeidler is by the way responsible for “Teubner-Taschenbuch der Mathematik” whose first part has also appeared in English as “Oxford User’s guide to mathematics” (Oxford UP 2004).
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Errata for the article \Variational Methods", by Lawrence C. Evans in The Princeton Companion to Mathematics, 2008. Section 2.1, second paragraph: lines 1 and 2: Change to \given two real numbers A and B:" Section 2.1, second paragraph: lines 4 and 5: Change to \u(a) = A and u(b) = B:"
Jul 18, 2010 · Introduces the language of mathematics and the goals of mathematical research. Covers number theory, algebra, analysis, geometry, logic, probability, and more. Traces the history and development of modern mathematics. Profiles more than ninety-five mathematicians who influenced those working today.
The Companion was that all of it should be accessible to anybody with a good background in high school mathematics (including calculus). However, it soon became apparent that this was an unrealistic aim: there are branches of mathematics that are so much easier to understand when one knows at least some university-level mathematics that it
The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics de-scribes what applied mathematics is about, why it is important, its connections with other disciplines, and some of the main areas of current research.
