TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harris,Michael
TI  - Mathematics without apologies: portrait of a problematic vocation 
SN  - 9780691154237 (alk. paper)
AV  - QA36 .H37 2015
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Princeton, New Jersey
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - Mathematicians
KW  - fast
KW  - local
KW  - Print books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-421) and indexes
N2  - What do pure mathematicians do, and why do they do it? Looking beyond the conventional answers--for the sake of truth, beauty, and practical applications--this book offers an eclectic panorama of the lives and values and hopes and fears of mathematicians in the twenty-first century, assembling material from a startlingly diverse assortment of scholarly, journalistic, and pop culture sources.--
ER  -