List of Figures ......................................... ix
Preface ............................................... xiii
Prolog ................................................. xxi
One Introduction ............................................. 1
Two Convention: How Means and Variances are Entrenched as
Statistics .............................................. 27
Three Subject: The Fields of Topology ......................... 54
Appendix: The Two-Dimensional Ising Model of
a Ferromagnet .......................................... 108
Four Calculation: Strategy, Structure, and Tactics in
Applying Classical Analysis ............................ 120
Five Analogy: A Syzygy Between a Research Program in
Mathematics and a Research Program in Physics .......... 211
Six In Concreto: The City of Mathematics ................... 256
Epilog ................................................. 296
Appendices
A. C.N. Yang, "The Spontaneous Magnetization of
a Two-Dimensional Ising Model" (1952) ................... 298
В. C. Fefferman and L.A. Seco, "On the Dirac and
Schwinger Corrections to the Ground-State Energy
of an Atom" (1994, pp. 1-14) ............................ 307
С. J. Leray, "Sur la forme des espaces topologiques et
sur les points fixes des representations" (1945,
pp. 96-99) .............................................. 322
D A. Weil, "Une lettre à Simone Weil" (1940) .............. 325
Notes ................................................... 339
Bibliography ............................................ 431
Thematic Index .......................................... 463
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