Krieger, Martin H. Doing Mathematics: Convention, Subject, Calculation, Analogy (2nd Edition). Singapore: WSPC, 2015. Second Edition. ISBN: 9789814571838. [7358]
New. Very slight shelf-wear, clean text. 9 1/4 x 6 inches, xxiv, 467 pp. Hardcover.
"Doing Mathematics discusses some ways mathematicians and mathematical physicists to their work and the subject matters they uncover and fashion. The conventions they adopt, the subject areas they delimit, what they can prove and calculate about the physical world, and the analogies they discover and employ, all depend on the mathematics - what will work out and what won't. The cases studied include the central limit theorum of statistics, the sound of the shape of a drum, the connections between algebra and topology, and the series of rigorous proofs of the stability of matter." - Publisher.
