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The Generator: How Mathematicians Don't Think

by Richard Spiers

104 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #07-1181; ISBN 1-4251-3194-8; US$13.52, C$15.55, EUR10.54, £6.99

This book shows Pythagorean Triples are in an infinite series, their relationship to prime numbers and equations of Euler's disproved conjecture. A very critical examination of culture in mathematics follows.

About the Book

This book shows Pythagorean Triples are in an infinite series, their relationship to prime numbers and equations of Euler's disproved conjecture. A very critical examination of culture in mathematics follows.

About the Author

I was born in 1946, in Coventry, England. I have many interests of which art, in particular sculpture, politics, and the more simple elements of mathematics are a few.

My life thus far has had very little of any real note. I've made a number of sculptures, almost all of them wood carvings, and sold a few; a couple of inventions, none taken up. It's been that sort of life.

On credibility tokens, I have a degree in politics. My view is that if you buy the book and it makes sense, then it is the sense that matters, not who wrote it.

I am interested in history but am far more concerned about where humans are going than where they have been.

My wife and I live with our five cats in Birmingham, England.