Subject: Re: [HM] Mathematics in Literature
From: James Buddenhagen (jbuddenh@texas.net)
Date: Thu Jun 01 2000 - 09:10:12 EDT
I haven't followed this thread carefully, so my apologies if
this book has already been mentioned:
Angles of Reflection : Logic and a Mother's Love
by Joan L. Richards
From the Back Cover
"Joan Richards, one of our leading historians of science, has
written a tale of three cities and two time frames. Angles of
Reflection gives a contrapuntal account of her experience as
the mother of an injured son and her professional perceptions
as a biographer of Augustus De Morgan. I found it unique in
its display of courage and resolution and in its blend of the
personal and the historical."
--Philip J. Davis, co-author of The Mathematical Experience
Also, since I have only just heard of this book but not read
it, I would be interested any any readers comments.
--Jim Buddenhagen
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