What Is Mathematics?
An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods
For more than two thousand years a familiarity with mathematics has been regarded as an indispensable part of the intellectual equipment of every cultured person. Today, unfortunately, the traditional place of mathematics in education is in grave danger. The teaching and learning of mathematics has degenerated into the realm of rote memorization, the outcome of which leads to satisfactory formal ability but does not lead to real understanding or to greater intellectual independence. This new edition of Richard Courant's and Herbert Robbins's classic work seeks to address this problem. Its goal is to put the meaning back into mathematics.Writt…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Robbins, Herbert / Stewart, Ian (Überarb.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-975487-8
- EAN: 9780199754878
- Produktnummer: 13956040
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 14'645 KB
- Auflage: 2. Auflage
- Abbildungen: 301 line illus.
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The late Richard Courant, headed the Department of Mathematicas at New York University and was Director of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences--which has subsequently renamed the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. His book Mathematical Physics is familiar to every physicist, and his book Differential and Integral Calculus is acknowledged to be one of the best presentations of the subject written in modern times. Herbert Robbins is New Jersey Professor of Mathematical Statistics at Rutgers University. Ian Stewart is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick, and author of Nature's Numbers and Does God Play Dice?. He also writes the Mathematical Recreations column in Scientific American.
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