William P. Byers
William Paul Byers (born 1943) is a Canadian mathematician and philosopher; professor emeritus in mathematics and statistics at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
He completed a BSc ('64), and an MSc ('65) from McGill University, and obtained his PhD ('69) from the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation, Anosov Flows, was supervised by Stephen Smale.[1]
His area of interests include dynamical systems and the philosophy of mathematics.
Books
[edit]Byers is the author of three books on mathematics:
- How Mathematicians Think: Using Ambiguity, Contradiction, and Paradox to Create Mathematics (Princeton University Press, 2007)[2]
- The Blind Spot: Science and the Crisis of Uncertainty (Princeton University Press, 2011)[3]
- Deep Thinking: What Mathematics Can Teach Us About the Mind (World Scientific, 2015)[4]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ William P. Byers at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Reviews of How Mathematicians Think:
- Grattan-Guinness, Ivor, zbMATH, Zbl 1123.00003
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Rogovchenko, Svitlana P., zbMATH, Zbl 1191.00009
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Chaitin, Gregory (July 25, 2007), "Review", New Scientist
- Hersh, Reuben (December 2007), "Review" (PDF), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 54 (11): 1496–1499
- Kennard, Lee (April 2008), Math Horizons, 15 (4): 24–25, doi:10.1080/10724117.2008.11974771, JSTOR 25678755, S2CID 125265631
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Wolff, Ken (May 2008), The Mathematics Teacher, 101 (9): 696, JSTOR 20876252
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Baylis, John (March 2009), The Mathematical Gazette, 93 (526): 170–173, doi:10.1017/S0025557200184463, JSTOR 40378699, S2CID 185022987
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Keyfitz, Barbara Lee (Winter 2009), University of Toronto Quarterly, 78 (1): 141–143, doi:10.1353/utq.0.0372, S2CID 120506445
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- Grattan-Guinness, Ivor, zbMATH, Zbl 1123.00003
- ^ Reviews of The Blind Spot:
- "Review", Quill & Quire, Ontario Arts Council, 26 July 2011
- "Nonfiction book review", Publishers Weekly
- Jubin, Brenda (April 2011), "Review", Seeking Alpha
- "Review", Kirkus Reviews, May 2011
- Taylor, Paul (April 2012), "Review", Mathematics Today, Institute of Mathematics & its Applications
- Sears, Ruthmae (October 2012), The Mathematics Teacher, 106 (3): 238, doi:10.5951/mathteacher.106.3.0238, JSTOR 10.5951/mathteacher.106.3.0238
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Edwards, Matthew (February 2013), "Review", The Actuary
- ^ Review of Deep Thinking:
- Bultheel, Adhemar (February 2015), "Review", EMS Reviews, European Mathematical Society
External links
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