Permit me to recommend Poincare. Just as inspiring, just as elegant (in the original French, anyway), and deeper. http://bit.ly/2jcXSb8
Rereading Hardy's _Mathematician's Apology_, slowly to make it last. Among the most inspiring books I know.https://www.amazon.com/Mathematicians-Apology-Canto-Classics/dp/110760463X …
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The final pages of THE VALUE OF SCIENCE may be the most beautiful and profound ever written by a scientist. Poincare was a philosopher-poet.
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I found his views on the craft inspiring, and yet found some of his views on "real mathematicians" discouraging (though I don't disagree)
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I also read it twice in one go ;) (Skipping, of course, the forward by Snow on the second time around)
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Thank you
@paulg for this inspiring reccomendationThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Thank you for posting this! I found the explanation of ambition especially illuminating for me :)
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