Perfect Rigour - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Perfect Rigour write by Masha Gessen. This book was released on 2011-03-03. Perfect Rigour available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 2006, an eccentric Russian mathematician named Grigori Perelman solved one of the world's greatest intellectual puzzles. The Poincare conjecture is an extremely complex topological problem that had eluded the best minds for over a century. In 2000, the Clay Institute in Boston named it one of seven great unsolved mathematical problems, and promised a million dollars to anyone who could find a solution. Perelman was awarded the prize this year - and declined the money. Journalist Masha Gessen was determined to find out why. Drawing on interviews with Perelman's teachers, classmates, coaches, teammates, and colleagues in Russia and the US - and informed by her own background as a math whiz raised in Russia - she set out to uncover the nature of Perelman's astonishing abilities. In telling his story, Masha Gessen has constructed a gripping and tragic tale that sheds rare light on the unique burden of genius.
Perfect Me
Perfect Me - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Perfect Me write by Heather Widdows. This book was released on 2020-02-25. Perfect Me available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How looking beautiful has become a moral imperative in today's worldThe demand to be beautiful is increasingly important in today's visual and virtual culture. Rightly or wrongly, being perfect has become an ethical ideal to live by, and according to which we judge ourselves good or bad, a success or a failure. Perfect Me explores the changing nature of the beauty ideal, showing how it is more dominant, more demanding, and more global than ever before.Heather Widdows argues that our perception of the self is changing. More and more, we locate the self in the body--not just our actual, flawed bodies but our transforming and imagined ones. As this happens, we further embrace the beauty ideal. Nobody is firm enough, thin enough, smooth enough, or buff enough-not without significant effort and cosmetic intervention. And as more demanding practices become the norm, more will be required of us, and the beauty ideal will be harder and harder to resist.If you have ever felt the urge to "make the best of yourself" or worried that you were "letting yourself go," this book explains why. Perfect Me examines how the beauty ideal has come to define how we see ourselves and others and how we structure our daily practices-and how it enthralls us with promises of the good life that are dubious at best. Perfect Me demonstrates that we must first recognize the ethical nature of the beauty ideal if we are ever to address its harms.
Rigor in Your School
Rigor in Your School - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rigor in Your School write by Ronald Williamson. This book was released on 2013-10-23. Rigor in Your School available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Experiencing Mathematics
Experiencing Mathematics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Experiencing Mathematics write by Reuben Hersh. This book was released on 2013-12-24. Experiencing Mathematics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Part IV. About the author -- An amusing elementary example -- Annotated research bibliography -- Curriculum vitae -- List of articles -- Index -- Back Cover
The Perfect Bet
The Perfect Bet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Perfect Bet write by Adam Kucharski. This book was released on 2016-02-23. The Perfect Bet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "An elegant and amusing account" of how gambling has been reshaped by the application of science and revealed the truth behind a lucky bet (Wall Street Journal). For the past 500 years, gamblers-led by mathematicians and scientists-have been trying to figure out how to pull the rug out from under Lady Luck. In The Perfect Bet, mathematician and award-winning writer Adam Kucharski tells the astonishing story of how the experts have succeeded, revolutionizing mathematics and science in the process. The house can seem unbeatable. Kucharski shows us just why it isn't. Even better, he demonstrates how the search for the perfect bet has been crucial for the scientific pursuit of a better world.
