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It is made equally clear and admitted by the author that many other of its subdisciplines are at least currently completely useless in the sense that there are no known practical applications

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The author a mathematician does an excellent job in providing the reader with an overview of both types of these subdisciplines while discussing various questions and issues in mathematics

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This view may be somewhat contrary to the idea there are intractable problems

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First do not buy this book if you think it has anything to do with telling you how to repair your car or how your calculator or dvd player works

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If you teach math this book is a must to show your students the numerous angles you can come at when looking at a problem including a lot of humility throughout the text about what can and cant be solved

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He hints at the possibility that certain arcane fields are indeed lurking to be found as well as unseen connections between research in different areas voting behavior vs

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Some pop math readers may not like this because stein keeps bringing historical concepts into the discussion but they are missing the point this wonderful author is showing us how to create and discover innovation with new connections both between current siloed research papers and dusting off old ideas with a new quantum spin

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We always buy the items we review for the sake of objectivity and although we search for gems are not shy about trashing an item if its a waste of time or money for amazon shoppers