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Nature 436, 622-623 (4 August 2005) | doi:10.1038/436622a; Published online 3 August 2005
Dramatizing maths: What's the plot?
Sarah Tomlin1
- Sarah Tomlin is a senior news feature editor for Nature.
Abstract
Can mathematicians learn from the narrative approaches of the writers who popularize and dramatize their work? Sarah Tomlin is on the story.
"Mathematicians are quite shy, with very few exceptions," announced Pierre Cartier of the Institute des Hautes Études Scientifiques, south of Paris, opening his talk on mathematicians who have written autobiographies. "And most of them are in this room!
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