What Is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Richard Courant, Herbert Robbins, Ian Stewart (Revised by)Series:Oxford PaperbacksPublish date:1996-07-18Pages:592
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780195105193ISBN-10:195105192UPC:9780195105193Book Category:MathematicsBook Subcategory:History & PhilosophySize:9.02 x 6.05 x 1.06 inchesWeight:1.702Product ID:SC6VRDRV4F
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...
Series: Oxford Paperbacks
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780195105193ISBN-10:195105192UPC:9780195105193Book Category:MathematicsBook Subcategory:History & PhilosophySize:9.02 x 6.05 x 1.06 inchesWeight:1.702Product ID:SC6VRDRV4F
The late Richard Courant, headed the Department of Mathematics 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...
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