5.0 out of 5 stars The model book, May 8, 2013

By

N N Taleb “Nassim N Taleb”

This review is from: Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (Dover Books on Mathematics) (Paperback)

There is something admirable about the school of the Russians: they are thinkers doing math, with remarkable clarity, minimal formalism, and total absence of unnecessary pedantry one finds in more modern texts (in the post Bourbaki era). This is of course surprising as one would have expected the exact opposite from the products of the communist era. Mathematicians should be using this book as a model for their own composition. You can read it and reread it. Professors should assign this in addition to modern texts, as readers can get intutions, something alas absent from modern texts.

HatTip to Dave Lull
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