The mathematician Walter Ledermann has dies. There has been a Times obituary and a better one in the Independent.
Ledermann was very influential in my undergraduate learning. I used his book on Group Theory to learn the subject and the series of books he edited, and in some cases wrote, called the Library of Mathematics was great. [...]
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Ledermann Obituaries
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After reading How to Think Like a Mathematician
Posted in Fun and nonsense, How to think like a mathematician on July 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The website Bookseer allows you to enter the name and author of a book to give you a recommendation for a related book to read. Of course I entered HTTLAM and got quite a good list.
The website just uses Amazon and LibraryThing to generate its suggestions. Unfortunately, LibraryThing gives “Nada” as a suggestion for HTTLAM.