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Fields of Honor #4, The Soldier'sMedal
A typical Zlotnik accurate but simplistic fictional account of a Vietnam Veteran's escapades.Unlike other works he has written, finishing the book is a saddening instead of uplifting experience. ... Read more

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Examines the evolution of certain areas of modern mathematics by recounting the past winners of the international Fields Medal, the - Nobel Prize - of mathematics.Paper.DLC: Mathematics - History 20th century. ... Read more

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Monastyrsky does the impossible
This book, within 150 pages, not only attempts to describe the efforts of the mathematical Fields Medal winners up until 1994, but actually tries to use it as a compass to assess where the field of mathematics is going.Not an easy task, even for this mathematical polymath.It is rare for professional mathematicians to try to put into plain English what they are working on, but the author makes just such an effort, and I think it is a needed one.

Good bird's-eye view; assumes a lot of background
The book attempts to summarize, in little over a hundred pages, the accomplishments of the Fields Medalists from the institution of the prize to 1994.Anyone familiar with the mathematics of the last century will understand the difficulty the author faced, but will recognize that even partial success is an accomplishment.Partial success is exactly what happened.

After reading this book, one will have a much better understanding of how a good deal of modern mathematics fits together.They will understand how Thurston's conjecture on geometrization of 3-manifolds relates to Serre's work on spectral sequences and Smale's work on the Poincare conjecture, for instance.The book is also laudable for a description of the Fields Medal award process, which (if it were read by the right folks) ought to dispel some nasty rumors about discrimination between sub-disciplines.

One caveat and one weakness should be observed.The caveat is that the text assumes enormous knowledge of pretty much all branches of mathematics.It is profitable reading even if you don't understand much, but be prepared.The weakness is one of perspective.The author gives considerable attention to anything bearing on physics, and not so much to anything else.That aside, the coverage is as full, accessible, and balanced as anyone can expect, and probably more so.Then again, that's a low standard.

Amazingly
As a first-year graduate student, I undersood most topics tangentially at best.Nonetheless, I was able to get a feel for some of the last century's most contributions to all of mathematics.I whole-heartedly recommend this book to anyone with a lot of exposue to various fields of mathematics, even if your knowledge of those fields is limited to the "exposure" level.

Essential for the budding researcher
So what is mathematics anyway?You may think you know, especially if you are a math grad student, but unless you're familiar with the contents of this book, you don't!

This book was a real eye-opener for me.Basically it covers what is considered to be important mathematics by the math community at large by recounting the discoveries/creations of the Fields Medalists.I found it fascinating how the Fields Medalists' work tied together large areas of mathematics together, and how many times this intertwining nature of their work wasn't realized until years later!

This book is rather incomprehensible initially, even if delightfully put together.The first time I read it, I couldn't pronounce some of the words.The second time, I knew what some of those words meant.The third time, I saw how the words I was comfortable with were related with those I weren't.One can read sections over and over again, each time having gained more knowledge of the mathematics involved, and still get a handy pointer on what to learn next.I think that is the greatest thing about the book: one can see the relation of what one is doing to the Grand Plan of mathematics and how the latter developed and is growing even now.

I've only gone over the topology section in some depth, since that is my area, but I've found it useful for pointing me towards what to concentrate on.The bibliography is very useful in that regard; I feel it could be more extensive, but certainly it does an admirable job in listing some of the more useful references.

Dyson's introduction describes this book as a "roadmap".Seen that way, you should get plenty of use out of it over a long period of time, although perhaps not immediately.

Essential mathematical culture for the mathematician
Most professional mathematicians know next to nothing about branches ofmathematics outside their own narrow specialty.If this describes you,then you *must* read this book.This beautiful little book of Monastyrskygives a brilliant exposition of the work of all the Fields medalists up toand including the 1994 winners.It seems impossible in such a small amountof space to assume no more than what the average mathematician can beexpected to know, and yet at the same time to provide enough technicaldetail for the reader to gain an accurate understanding of the content andsignificance of the major theorems of all the medalists.Perhaps this isactually impossible, but Monastyrsky comes as close as is humanly possibleto achieving this goal.This book will broaden your mathematical culturemore than any other single book I know.It was not until I read this bookthat I learned how simply the exotic structures on S^7 may be described, orwhat Margulis got his Fields medal for.

Warning: if you do not have atleast a graduate-level education in mathematics, most of the book will beincomprehensible.Although there are some historical notes and insightsinto people's personalities scattered throughout the book, the intendedaudience is unquestionably the research mathematician who wants to knowmore than just the buzzwords associated with each Fields medalist. ... Read more

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The Symposium on the Current State and Prospects ofMathematics was held in Barcelona from June 13 to June 18,1991. Seven invited Fields medalists gavetalks on thedevelopment of their respective research fields. Thecontents of all lectures were collected in the volume,together witha transcription of a round table discussionheld during the Symposium. Allpapers are expository. Someparts include precise technical statements of recentresults, but the greater part consists of narrativetextaddressed to a very broad mathematical public.CONTENTS: R. Thom:Leaving Mathematics for Philosophy.- S.Novikov: Role of Integrable Modelsin the Development ofMathematics.- S.-T. Yau: The Current State andProspects ofGeometry and Nonlinear Differential Equations.- A. Connes:Noncommutative Geometry.- S. Smale: Theory of Computation.-V.Jones: Knots in Mathematics and Physics.- G. Faltings:Recent Progress in Diophantine Geometry. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Science News, published by Thomson Gale on August 26, 2006. The length of the article is 694 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Fields medals: mathematicians win awards for geometry, physics, and probability.(Grigori Perelman honored)
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This digital document is an article from Science and Its Times, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 1256 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The histories of science, technology, and mathematics merge with the study of humanities and social science in this interdisciplinary reference work. Essays on people, theories, discoveries, and concepts are combined with overviews, bibliographies of primary documents, and chronological elements to offer students a fascinating way to understand the impact of science on the course of human history and how science affects everyday life. Entries represent people and developments throughout the world, from about 2000 B.C. through the end of the twentieth century. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Science and Its Times, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 133 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The histories of science, technology, and mathematics merge with the study of humanities and social science in this interdisciplinary reference work. Essays on people, theories, discoveries, and concepts are combined with overviews, bibliographies of primary documents, and chronological elements to offer students a fascinating way to understand the impact of science on the course of human history and how science affects everyday life. Entries represent people and developments throughout the world, from about 2000 B.C. through the end of the twentieth century. ... Read more

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Chapters: 1904 Summer Olympics Medal Table, Francis Field, Mixed Team at the 1904 Summer Olympics. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The 1904 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the III Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in St. Louis, Missouri, in the United States from July 1, 1904, to November 23, 1904, at what is now known as Francis Field on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis. The city of Chicago, Illinois, had won the original bid to host the 1904 Summer Olympics, but the organizers of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis would not accept another international event in the same time frame. The exposition organization began to plan for its own sports activities, informing the Chicago OCOG that its own international sports events intended to eclipse the Olympic Games unless they were moved to St. Louis. Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic movement, gave in and awarded the games to St. Louis. St. Louis organizers repeated the mistakes made at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris. Competitions were reduced to a side-show of the World's Fair and were lost in the chaos of other, more popular cultural exhibits. David Francis, the President of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, declined to invite anybody else to open the Games and, on July 1 did so himself in a scaled-down short and humdrum "ceremony". Officially, the games lasted for four and a half months; in fact, James Edward Sullivan tried to hold an event every day for the duration of the fair. The Olympic caliber events were again mixed with other sporting events, but whereas Paris hardly ever mentioned them, Sullivan called all his sports events "Olympic." The IOC later declared that 94 of these events ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=182153 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! René Frédéric Thom (September 2, 1923 ? October 25, 2002) was a French mathematician. He made his reputation as a topologist, moving on to aspects of what would be called singularity theory; he became world-famous among the wider academic community and the educated general public for one aspect of this latter interest, his work as founder of catastrophe theory (later developed by Erik Christopher Zeeman). He received the Fields Medal in 1958. ... Read more

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A prayer full of the intimate gentleness for familiar things, the love of friends and family, and the kindly protection of God. Though it was written for one little girl, the prayer is for all boys and girls, and it carries a universal appeal for all ages and races. ... Read more

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Warm, Sweet, and Angelic
I enjoyed reading this book as a child, and last year, I sent a copy as a gift for a newborn cousin of mine.Oftentimes, when I've delved into the poetry of Rachel Field's 1941 Caldecott medal winner, strains of "The Children's Prayer" from "Hansel and Gretel" (as sung in the film, "One Foot In Heaven", which was released the same year as this book was published) have filtered through my head.
This book would provide a lovely way to spend lap time with little ones because the illustrations are darling and the scenes of a little girl's life as she prays for herself, her family, her most precious personal effects as well as others are so relatable.
I highly recommend this book as a classic that continues to shine its light, and to gently and lovingly reflect the world of children!

Prayer for a child
I have always loved this book.....read it to my children when they were small and now give it as a gift to anyone expecting a child.

My Favorite Baby Gift
My four children, now in their 50,s can still recite this prayer verbatim, as can I.

a beautiful classic
My Grandmother purchased this book for me when I was very young because she said the little girl in the pictures reminded her of me.I was instanly smitten as a child by the pictures and rhythmic verse.
I now read this book to my own children.It is part of the bedtime ritual for my 1-year-old son who loves to point to the baby in the pictures and "pat the kitty cat".There are special pages that he likes to look at for an extended time and smiles consistantly at certain pictures, especially the page representing children from around the world.
It is a lovely story with topics that children will readily associate with, and I hope that my children will enjoy its elegant simplicity with their own families one day.

Beautiful
We love this book and we always read it at bedtime. It is perfect for children because it is written in a way that they think. Like asking God to bless a chair and such. Too sweet!!! ... Read more

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Title: Manitoba will have better shot at medals; Levelling playing field at nationals.(Sports)
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