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- W239258209 abstract "Mathematics, like all the basic sciences, has experienced phe nomenal growth during the past sixty years. It is said, for in stance, that more than ninety per cent of all the world's mathe maticians?past and present?are alive today. To disseminate the output of this army there are now some one thousand journals pubhshing current mathematical research. Yet, in an era when popularizers have successfully carried many of the 20th-century's scientific advances to the public, Mathematics is still virtually un known to the nonprofessional. Even the nonscientific literati are caught short here for, while most intellectuals (to be worthy of the name) are reasonably well informed about important devel opments in the natural sciences, they have no conception of what is happening in Mathematics. Why is this discipline such a com plete unknown to almost everyone? One obvious answer is that the impact of mathematical ad vances is often indirect or delayed. The repercussions of the physicist's transistor and the chemist's birth-control pill are wide spread and dramatic. And a homeowner's interest would be im mediate and intense if he were to be told by a geologist that he had built his house directly over the San Andreas Fault. On the other hand, who has heard of the modern mathematical theory of abstract spaces which has made possible quantum mechanics, with its attendant benefits to mankind? By the same token, it frequently happens that breakthroughs in (let us say) physics are quickly translated into useful hardware. The transistor is a prime example of this. Yet mathematical dis coveries often lie unused for many years, perhaps centuries. For example, important parts of the work of the brilliant young French mathematician Evariste Galois (1811-1832) were not put to practical use until the middle of this century. Galois' work now helps provide us with improved communications equipment. Generally speaking, the great bulk of the Mathematics being put to work in technology today is comprised of results that have been well-known for about three centuries. Since there is every" @default.
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- W239258209 title "Mathematics for the Few" @default.
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