| Mathematical Vistas: From a Room with Many Windows Contributor(s): Hilton, Peter (Author), Holton, Derek (Author), Pedersen, Jean (Author) |
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ISBN: 0387950648 ISBN-13: 9780387950648 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2002 Annotation: The goal of Mathematical Vistas is to stimulate the interest of bright people in mathematics. The book consists of nine related mathematical essays which will intrigue and inform the curious reader. In order to offer a broad spectrum of exciting developments in mathematics, topics are treated at different levels of depth and thoroughness. Some chapters can be understood completely with little background, others can be thought of as appetizers for further study. A number of breaks are included in each chapter. These are problems designed to test the reader?'s understanding of the material thus far in the chapter. This book is a sequel to the authors?? popular book Mathematical Reflections (ISBN 0-387-94770-1) and can be read independently. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | Essays |
| Dewey: 510 |
| LCCN: 00056268 |
| Series: Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 7.2" W x 9.54" (1.75 lbs) 337 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Focusing YourAttention We have called this book Mathematical Vistas because we have already published a companion book MathematicalRefiections in the same series;1 indeed, the two books are dedicated to the same principal purpose - to stimulate the interest ofbrightpeople in mathematics.Itis not our intention in writing this book to make the earlier book aprerequisite, but it is, of course, natural that this book should contain several references to its predecessor. This is especially - but not uniquely- true of Chapters 3, 4, and 6, which may be regarded as advanced versions of the corresponding chapters in Mathematical Reflections. Like its predecessor, the present work consists of nine chapters, each devoted to a lively mathematical topic, and each capable, in principle, of being read independently of the other chapters.' Thus this is not a text which- as is the intention of most standard treatments of mathematical topics - builds systematically on certain common themes as one proceeds 1Mathematical Reflections - In a Room with Many Mirrors, Springer Undergraduate Texts in Math- ematics, 1996; Second Printing 1998. We will refer to this simply as MR. 2There was an exception in MR; Chapter 9 was concerned with our thoughts on the doing and teaching of mathematics at the undergraduate level. |