Veteran theatre director Joan Littlewood has been responsible for some of the most unconventional theatrical successes of the century, such as Oh What A Lovely War and the plays of Brendan Behan and Shelagh Delaney. In this autobiography she presents an idiosyncratic account of her life, from her birth in South London just after the outbreak of World War I to her years touring with Theatre Workshop, her relationship with Gerry Raffles, and her work with students and actors worldwide.
As the title promises, this helpful volume offers easy access to the abstract principles common to science and mathematics. It eschews technical terms and omits troublesome details in favor of straightforward explanations that will allow scientists to read papers in branches of science other than their own, mathematicians to appreciate papers on topics on which they have no specialized knowledge, and other readers to cultivate an improved understanding of subjects employing mathematical principles. The broad scope of topics encompasses Euclid’s algorithm; congruences; polynomials; complex numbers and algebraic fields; algebraic integers, ideals, and p-adic numbers; groups; the Galois theory of equations; algebraic geometry; matrices and determinants; invariants and tensors; algebras; group algebras; and more."It is refreshing to find a book which deals briefly but competently with a variety of concatenated algebraic topics, that is not written for the specialist," enthused the Journal of the Institute of Actuaries Students’ Society about this volume, adding "Littlewood’s book can be unreservedly recommended."
