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From reviews: "Extremely readable... rare testimony of a period of the history of 20th century mathematics. Includes very interesting recollections on the author's participation in the formation of the Bourbaki Group, tells of his meetings and conversations with leading mathematicians, reflects his views on mathematics. The book describes an extraordinary career of an exceptional man and mathematicians. Strongly recommended to specialists as well as to the general public." --EMS Newsletter (1992)
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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. 197pp. Hardback with glossy boards, VG, translated from the French, index, footnotes, b&w photos, The author, a mathematician whose horizons have never been limited to mathematics, recalls a career that led him to numerous continents, Seller Inventory # w230932785
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André Weil: The Apprenticeship of a Mathematician
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition. The dates on the title and copyright pages concur, 1992. 8vo. 197 pages. Frontis photograph of the author and his wife. Illustrated with a few additional photographs within the text. Index of Names. Cased in red hard covers. No dust jacket, perhaps as issued. No signs of previous ownership. Not a library discard. An unread copy in as-new condition. Seller Inventory # 002648
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The Apprenticeship of a Mathematician. Translated from the French by Jennifer Gage.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition in English. Frontispiece, 197 pp; illus. Original decorated matte boards. Near Fine, without dust jacket (as issued). 'Beginning in the 1940s, Weil started the rapid advance of algebraic geometry and number theory by laying the foundations for abstract algebraic geometry and the modern theory of abelian varieties. His work on algebraic curves has influenced a wide variety of areas, including some outside mathematics, such as elementary particle physics and string theory. In fact Weil's work in this area was basic to work by mathematicians such as [Shing-Tung] Yau who was awarded a Fields Medal in 1982 for work in three dimensional algebraic geometry which has major applications to quantum field theory. Yau is not the only mathematician who received a Fields Medal for work which continued that begun by Weil. In 1978 Deligne was awarded a Fields Medal for solving the Weil Conjectures. Again we quote [4] for a description of Weil's fundamental contribution: 'One of Weil's major achievements was his proof of the Riemann hypothesis for the congruence zeta functions of algebraic function fields. In 1949 he raised certain conjectures about the congruence zeta function of algebraic varieties over finite fields. These Weil conjectures, as they came to be called, grew out of his deep insight into the topology of algebraic varieties and provided guiding principles for subsequent developments in the field' ' (MacTutor History of Mathematics Web site, citing 'Weil receives Kyoto prize', Notices Amer. Math. Soc 41 (7) (1994), 793-794). Seller Inventory # 15070
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The Apprenticeship of a Mathematician
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The Apprenticeship of a Mathematician
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First American edition. Translated from the French by Jennifer Gage. A fine, as new copy without dustwrapper as issued. Seller Inventory # 100787