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What is mathematics? : an elementary approach to ideas and methods (2nd ed.)

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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.

Written for beginners and scholars, for students and teachers, for philosophers and engineers, What is Mathematics?, Second Edition is a sparkling collection of mathematical gems that offers an entertaining and accessible portrait of the mathematical world.This book is intended for the general reader with an interest in mathematics; students of mathematics; students of related disciplines with a desire to develop their mathematical skills, from undergraduate level upwards.

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Oxford University Press Inc
0195105192 / 9780195105193
Paperback / softback
510
05/09/1996
United States
English
544p.
24 cm
general /undergraduate Learn More