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Angles of reflection : logic and a mother's love / Joan L. Richards.
- Title
- Angles of reflection : logic and a mother's love / Joan L. Richards.
- Author
- Richards, Joan L., 1948-
- Publication
- New York : W.H. Freeman , c2000.
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- Description
- 282 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "At the time her nine-year-old son was diagnosed with a brain tumor, Joan Richards was deeply involoved in writing a book about the life and work of the nineteenth-century mathematician Augustus De Morgan. Immersed in this abstract, logical world of science, Richards was forced by her son's sudden illness to confront a different kind of reality the irrational world of a serious family illness and its consequences."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Case studies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Fuzzy Vision, Enhanced Vision -- Beim Wippen (On a See-Saw) -- Er Muss Bewegen (He Must Exercise/It Must Move) -- Waiting for the Changes.
- ISBN
- 0716738317
- LCCN
- ^^^00024875^
- OCLC
- 43434644
- SCSB-11708109
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library