William P. Byers

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William Paul Byers (born 1943) is a

Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec
, Canada.

He completed a BSc ('64), and an MSc ('65) from McGill University, and obtained his PhD ('69) from the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation, Anosov Flows, was supervised by Stephen Smale.[1]

His area of interests include dynamical systems and the philosophy of mathematics.

Books

Byers is the author of three books on mathematics:

  • How Mathematicians Think: Using Ambiguity, Contradiction, and Paradox to Create Mathematics (Princeton University Press, 2007)[2]
  • The Blind Spot: Science and the Crisis of Uncertainty (Princeton University Press, 2011)[3]
  • Deep Thinking: What Mathematics Can Teach Us About the Mind (World Scientific, 2015)[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ William P. Byers at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ Reviews of How Mathematicians Think:
    • Grattan-Guinness, Ivor, zbMATH,
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    • Rogovchenko, Svitlana P., zbMATH,
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    • Chaitin, Gregory (July 25, 2007), "Review", New Scientist
    • Hersh, Reuben (December 2007), "Review" (PDF), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 54 (11): 1496–1499
    • Kennard, Lee (April 2008), Math Horizons, 15 (4): 24–25,
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      )
    • Wolff, Ken (May 2008), The Mathematics Teacher, 101 (9): 696,
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      )
    • Baylis, John (March 2009), The Mathematical Gazette, 93 (526): 170–173,
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      )
    • Keyfitz, Barbara Lee (Winter 2009), University of Toronto Quarterly, 78 (1): 141–143,
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      )
  3. ^ Reviews of The Blind Spot:
  4. ^ Review of Deep Thinking:
    • Bultheel, Adhemar (February 2015), "Review", EMS Reviews, European Mathematical Society

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