Princeton Companion to Mathematics

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Princeton University Press (2008)
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This text features nearly 200 entries which introduce basic mathematical tools and vocabulary, trace the development of modern mathematics, define essential ...

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Mathematical economics and economic reasoning.P. Dasgupta
The Crisis in the Foundations of Mathematics.J. Ferreiros
The mathematics of traffic in networks.Frank Kelly
Computational Number Theory.  (pages 348--362)C. Pomerance
Algebraic geometry.  (pages 363--372)János Kollár
Logic and model theory.  (pages 635--646)D. Marker
The weil conjectures.  (pages 729--732)Brian Osserman
Joseph Louis Lagrange.  (pages 751--752)Marco Panza
Mathematics and music.  (pages 935--944)C. Nolan

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