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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the PROSE Award in Popular Science and Mathematics, Association of American Publishers"
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Do Not Erase . . . reveals the scribbles, workings and eureka moments of minds bursting with equations and theories, a paean to mental graft and the blackboards that display it. You can almost feel the tickle of dust in the nose, the thump of chalk on the board, the swish of a cuff brushing away a mistake."
---Nicola Davis, The Observer"American photographer Jessica Wynne’s
Do Not Erase captures the visual workings of mathematicians in producing formulas and illustrating their thoughts."
---Cheyenne Darko, The Financial Times Snapshot"This is an original, elegant, if baffling book."
---Andrew Robinson, Nature"[Wynne] forces us to look at the chalkboards themselves, to see them as documents or artifacts, without the irresistible distraction of human presence."
---Brian Hayes, American Scientist"This is a wonderful mirror that Jessica Wynne shows us mathematicians of a world that is so very familiar when looking at it from the inside of our world of mathematics. . . . [that also] forces us to think in a different way about what we are doing day in and day out."
---Adhemar Bultheel, MAA Reviews"An incredible, intense delight to read and study . . .
Do Not Erase has become my favorite book to randomly explore."
---Edward J. Valauskas, First Monday"[A] testament to the myriad ways that mathematicians use their chalkboards to reveal the conceptual and visual beauty of their discipline-shapes, figures, formulas, and conjectures created through imagination, argument, and speculation." * MathSciNet *
"Beautiful. . . . [This] book will also remain a monument for history, too."
---Athanase Papadopoulos, zbMATH Open
