What Is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods Paperback - 1996 - 2nd Edition
by Richard Courant; Herbert Robbins; Revised by Ian Stewart
The teaching and learning of mathematics has degenerated into the realm of rote memorization, the outcome of which leads to satisfactory formal ability but not real understanding or greater intellectual independence. The new edition of this classic work seeks to address this problem. Its goal is to put the meaning back into mathematics. "Lucid . . . easily understandable".--Albert Einstein. 301 linecuts.
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Written for beginners and scholars, for students and teachers, for philosophers and engineers, What is Mathematics? is a sparkling collection of mathematical gems that offers an entertaining and accessible portrait of the mathematical world. Brought up to date with a new chapter by Ian Stewart, this second edition offers new insights into recent mathematical developments and describes proofs of the Four-Color Theorem and Fermat's Last Theorem, problems that were still open when Courant and Robbins wrote this masterpiece, but ones that have since been solved.
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- Title What Is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods
- Author Richard Courant; Herbert Robbins; Revised by Ian Stewart
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 2nd
- Edition 2
- Pages 592
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, NY
- Date 1996-07-18
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780195105193 / 0195105192
- Weight 1.7 lbs (0.77 kg)
- Dimensions 9.02 x 6.05 x 1.06 in (22.91 x 15.37 x 2.69 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Mathematics
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95053803
- Dewey Decimal Code 510
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