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The Mind of the Mathematician

Michael Fitzgerald, Ioan James (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

196 Seiten

2007
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-8587-7 (ISBN)

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What makes mathematicians tick? How do their minds process formulas and concepts that, for most of the rest of the world's population, remain mysterious and beyond comprehension? Is there a connection between mathematical creativity and mental illness? In The Mind of the Mathematician, internationally famous mathematician Ioan James and accomplished psychiatrist Michael Fitzgerald look at the complex world of mathematics and the mind. Together they explore the behavior and personality traits that tend to fit the profile of a mathematician. They discuss mathematics and the arts, savants, gender and mathematical ability, and the impact of autism, personality disorders, and mood disorders. These topics, together with a succinct analysis of some of the great mathematical personalities of the past three centuries, combine to form an eclectic and fascinating blend of story and scientific inquiry.

Michael Fitzgerald is the Henry Marsh Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin. He is also a psychoanalyst with the International Psychoanalytic Association and the author of eighteen books. Ioan James was Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford University. He is the author of seven books and over one hundred research articles and an editor for the mathematical journal Topology.

Preface
Introduction

Part I: Tour of the Literature

1. Mathematicians and Their World
2. Mathematical Ability
3. The Dynamics of Mathematical Creation

Part II: Twenty Mathematical Personalities

4. Lagrange, Gauss, Cauchy, and Dirichlet
5. Hamilton, Galois, Byron, and Riemann
6. Cantor, Kovalevskaya, Poincaré, and Hilbert
7. Hadamard, Hardy, Noether, and Ramanujan
8. Fisher, Wiener, Dirac, and Gödel
References
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.9.2007
Verlagsort	Baltimore, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geschichte der Mathematik
ISBN-10	0-8018-8587-6 / 0801885876
ISBN-13	978-0-8018-8587-7 / 9780801885877
Zustand	Neuware