Re:‘The Fractalist,’ Benoit B. Mandelbrot’s Math Memoir
by kryptiskt on Wednesday October 31, 2012 @04:21PM
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I liked Ulam's Adventures of a Mathematician.
William Poundstone's Prisoner's Dilemma is only partly a biography of von Neumann, still a good book. Gian-Carlo Rota's Indiscrete Thoughts is a mash of bits and pieces, largely about mathematical culture and personalities. I thought it was an interesting read.
What I would really like would be a serious tome on Claude Shannon, he plays a bit part in many, many books, but nobody seem to have written specifically about him and his work.
William Poundstone's Prisoner's Dilemma is only partly a biography of von Neumann, still a good book. Gian-Carlo Rota's Indiscrete Thoughts is a mash of bits and pieces, largely about mathematical culture and personalities. I thought it was an interesting read.
What I would really like would be a serious tome on Claude Shannon, he plays a bit part in many, many books, but nobody seem to have written specifically about him and his work.