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To: onedoug
If you’ve had Calculus I and II in college, Hardy and Wright’s wonderful book An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers should be just right for you!
5 posted on 01/21/2014 7:46:21 AM PST by cartan
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To: cartan

Not in my library, and a little pricey on Amazon. I’ve been slogging about in Alan Baker’s “Intro...” book, but it gets pretty hard sometimes.

I really like what Paul Dirac once said: “It is more important to have beauty in one’s equations than to have them fit experiment.”

I’ve come to understand that where you find one, you usually find the other as well.

It’s difficult not to consider mathematics as having been imprinted on the universe.


8 posted on 01/21/2014 8:10:24 AM PST by onedoug
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