On the outside, twenty-eight-year-old Fiona Yu appears to be just another Hello Kitty--an educated, well-mannered Asian American woman. Secretly, she feels torn between the traditional Chinese values of her family and the social mores of being an Ame...
What do pure mathematicians do, and why do they do it? Looking beyond the conventional answers -- for the sake of truth, beauty, and practical applications -- this book offers an eclectic panorama of the lives and values and hopes and fears of mat...