Download or read book Recountings written by Joel Segel and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-01-03 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the history of the MIT Department of Mathematics-one of the most important mathematics departments in the world-through candid, in-depth, lively conversations with a select and diverse group of its senior members. The process reveals much about the motivation, path, and impact of research mathematicians in a society that owes so mu