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"Some may open this book, see pages of formulae and decide to go no further. This would be a great pity - skipping over the mathematics does not detract from the enjoyment of the main story. This is a fitting tribute to a man to whom the world owes a great deal." - Sir Patrick Moore, Times Higher Educational Supplement
"In place of poetry and roses, engineer Barnes Wallis wooed his lady-love with trigonometry and calculus - and won her heart. A charming and unique correspondence from the human side of mathematics." - Ian Stewart, author of Math Hysteria and Flatterland
"What a lovely book, reminiscent of Nevile Shute's novels. This mixture of maths and suppressed emotion is warm, touching, and rather improbable. Here we meet neither the lovable bumbling genius of Paul Brickhill's book The Dam Busters and Michael Redgrave's portrayal in the film, nor the stubborn and difficult man that Wallis could be at the drawing board, but a third man, a shy, loving teacher prepared to go to tremendous lengths for the girl he falls in love with." - Adam Hart-Davis, author of What The Past Did For Us
"The surprise hit of the year so far! I approached this book with trepidation, but found it absolutely delightful." - Brian Clegg, author of Infinity"This delightful book is...a story with many different attractions: the careful depiction of English life in the 1920s; the slowly developing romance between two contrasting but complementary people; the sweet naivete, to our ears, of their writing; and the quality of the mathematics teaching. It must be a unique courtship and one which deeply unites intellect and feeling" - New Humanist"One of the tenderest and most unlikely courtships imaginable.A heartwarming insight into the selfless and truly romantic way that relationships were forged between the wars." - Daily Mail'A lovely, charming book, skilfully and unobtrusively narrated.' - The Mathematical Gazette
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mathematics With Love
Book Subtitle: The Courtship Correspondence of Barnes Wallis, Inventor of the Bouncing Bomb
Authors: Mary Stopes-Roe
Series Title: Macmillan Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-55222-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-55222-7Published: 15 May 2017
Series ISSN: 2947-7387
Series E-ISSN: 2947-7395
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 366
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Popular Science, general, History of Science, Mathematics, general, Mathematical Physics, History of World War II and the Holocaust