- Pre-Calculus, Reference, MATHEMATICS, Mathematik
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Cool, earnest, warm and spare.
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Timothy Gowers
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 1021
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press, Princeton University Press, Credo Reference
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781849726955
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Sir William Timothy Gowers, FRS is a British mathematician. He is Professeur titulaire of the Combinatorics chair at the Collège de France, and Director of Research at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1998, he received the Fields Medal for research connecting the fields of functional analysis and combinatorics. *--Wikipedia* Photo Attribution: *AllenS, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*
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