Genius
Richard Gregory, 17 June 1982
The Mind’s Best Work
by D.N. Perkins.
Harvard, 314 pp., £12.95, November 1981,0 06 745762 2 Show More
by D.N. Perkins.
Harvard, 314 pp., £12.95, November 1981,
The Mathematical Experience
by Philip Davis and Reuben Hersh.
Harvester, 440 pp., £12.95, November 1981,0 7108 0364 8 Show More
by Philip Davis and Reuben Hersh.
Harvester, 440 pp., £12.95, November 1981,
“... motivation and their life-long drive to achieve things that do not yet exist. Philip Davis and Reuben Hersh have written an attractive book which reveals the fascination of mathematics as an activity, and the seductions of its claims to indubitability. These have inspired, challenged and confounded views of the world and of the mind throughout ... ”
