Titlebook: Mathematical Conversations; Selections from The Robin Wilson,Jeremy Gray Book 2001 Springer Science+Business Media New York 2001 Algebra.A

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Overview: Includes supplementary material: 978-1-4612-6556-6978-1-4613-0195-0

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Introductionn, profound, and surprising. Reading these articles again has given us insights into what animates mathematicians as they shared their enthusiasm with non-specialists, including experts in fields other than their own.

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The Banach-Tarski Theoremeach having exactly the same size and volume as the first one. That’s right: With sufficient diligence and dexterity, from any three-dimensional solid we can produce two new objects exactly the same as the first one!

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On the Steps of Moscow UniversityFrom the front page of the ., Saturday, August 27,1966:

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An Interview with Jean-Pierre SerreJean-Pierre Serre was born in 1926 and studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1954 and has been Professor of Algebra and Geometry at the Collège de France since 1956.

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Mathematical AnecdotesIn any field of human endeavor, the “great” participants are distinguished from everyone else by the arcana and apocrypha that surround them. Stories about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart abound, yet there are few stories about his musical contemporaries. Mozart had the . that made people . to tell stories about him.

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Solving Polynomial SystemsA high school student should be able to solve the following problem: . That is, from (2), we get . = . + 1 and then substitute into (1). The solutions . = 2, . = 1, and . = − 1, . = −2 are obtained.