The best of all possible worlds : mathematics and destiny / Ivar Ekeland.
Optimists believe this is the best of all possible worlds. And pessimists fear that might really be the case. But what "is" the best of all possible worlds? How do we define it? Is it the world that operates the most efficiently? Or the one in which most people are comfortable and content?...
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| Other title: | Meilleur des mondes possibles. English. |
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| Language: | English French |
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Chicago :
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2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Keeping the beat
- The birth of modern science
- The least action principle
- From computations to geometry
- Poincare and beyond
- Pandora's box
- May the best one win
- The end of nature
- The common good
- A personal conclusion.