Living Proof
Title | Living Proof PDF eBook |
Author | Allison K. Henrich |
Publisher | |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Academic achievement |
ISBN | 9781470452810 |
Wow! This is a powerful book that addresses a long-standing elephant in the mathematics room. Many people learning math ask ``Why is math so hard for me while everyone else understands it?'' and ``Am I good enough to succeed in math?'' In answering these questions the book shares personal stories from many now-accomplished mathematicians affirming that ``You are not alone; math is hard for everyone'' and ``Yes; you are good enough.'' Along the way the book addresses other issues such as biases and prejudices that mathematicians encounter, and it provides inspiration and emotional support for mathematicians ranging from the experienced professor to the struggling mathematics student. --Michael Dorff, MAA President This book is a remarkable collection of personal reflections on what it means to be, and to become, a mathematician. Each story reveals a unique and refreshing understanding of the barriers erected by our cultural focus on ``math is hard.'' Indeed, mathematics is hard, and so are many other things--as Stephen Kennedy points out in his cogent introduction. This collection of essays offers inspiration to students of mathematics and to mathematicians at every career stage. --Jill Pipher, AMS President This book is published in cooperation with the Mathematical Association of America.
Living Proof
Title | Living Proof PDF eBook |
Author | Clebe McClary |
Publisher | |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 1987-05-03 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780964066625 |
Living Proof
Title | Living Proof PDF eBook |
Author | Kira Peikoff |
Publisher | St. Martin's Press |
Pages | 452 |
Release | 2012-12-24 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780765367488 |
Set in the year 2027, when destroying an embryo is considered first-degree murder, this thought-provoking thriller by a debut author is a celebration of love and life that cuts to the core of a major cultural debate of our time.
Living Proof
Title | Living Proof PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Gearin-Tosh |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 366 |
Release | 2010-05-11 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 0743234200 |
I was told I had cancer and that I must expect to die soon. Almost eight years later I still do my job and enjoy life. I have not had conventional treatment. Did my cancer simply disappear? Did I do nothing? Far from it. A number of things happened, some by accident, most by design. Michael Gearin-Tosh is diagnosed with cancer at the age of fifty-four. The doctors urge immediate treatment. He refuses. Intuitively, not on the basis of reason. But as the days pass, Gearin-Tosh falls back on his habits as a scholar of literature. He begins to probe the experts' words and the meaning behind medical phrases. He tries to relate what each doctor says -- and does not say -- to the doctor's own temperament. And the more questions he asks, the more adamant his refusal to be hurried to treatment. The delay is a high-risk gamble. He listens to much advice, especially that of three women friends, each with a different point of view, one a doctor. They challenge him. They challenge medical advice. They challenge one another. On no occasion do they speak with one voice. He also turns to unexpected guides within his own memory and in the authors he loves, from Shakespeare and Chekhov to Jean Renoir, Arthur Miller, and Václav Havel. In the end, he chooses not to have chemotherapy but to combat his cancer largely through nutrition, vitamin supplements, an ancient Chinese breathing exercise with imaginative visualizations, and acupuncture. No how-to book or prescriptive health guide, Living Proof is a celebration of human existence and friendship, a story of how a man steers through conflicting advice, between depression and seemingly inescapable rationalism, between the medicine he rejects and the doctors he honors. Clear-eyed and unflinching, Gearin-Tosh even includes his own medical history, "The Case of the .005% Survivor"; explores general questions about cancer; and examines the role of individual temperament on medical attitudes, the choice of treatments, and, of course, survival.
Living Proof
Title | Living Proof PDF eBook |
Author | Jim Petersen |
Publisher | Tyndale House |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2014-02-27 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1615219412 |
Jim Petersen shares what he’s learned from over 25 years of working with the unchurched. He shows that, although many people don’t want to hear about our faith, they will talk about their own felt needs—needs that can only be met in Christ. Learn how to develop relationships with the unreached, model the Christian message, and eventually present the Bible’s claims in a non-threatening manner.
Living Proof
Title | Living Proof PDF eBook |
Author | Lucas Daniel Boyce |
Publisher | Advantage Media Group |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1599322579 |
"Life lessons for success, leadership and character"
Living Proof
Title | Living Proof PDF eBook |
Author | Kira Peikoff |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2012-02-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0765329301 |
Performing illegal research in a near-future world where embryonic stem cell work is considered first-degree murder, brilliant doctor Arianna Drake draws the attention of an agent from the Department of Embryo Preservation.