| Easy as π?: An Introduction to Higher Mathematics 1999 Edition Contributor(s): Ivanov, Oleg A. (Author), Burns, R. G. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0387985212 ISBN-13: 9780387985213 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 1998 Annotation: This book introduces readers to both the higher and the more fundamental developments of the basic themes of elementary mathematics. To this end, most chapters begin with a series of elementary problems, behind whose diverting formulation, more advanced mathematical ideas lie hidden. These are then made explicit and further developments are explored, broadening the reader's understanding of mathematics. 60 illus. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | Discrete Mathematics - Mathematics | Algebra - Linear - Mathematics | Geometry - General |
| Dewey: 510 |
| LCCN: 98016710 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6.07" W x 9.17" (0.67 lbs) 190 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The present book is rare, even unique of its kind, at least among mathematics texts published in Russian. You have before you neither a textbook nor a monograph, although these selected chapters from elementary mathematics certainly constitute a fine educational tool. It is my opinion that this is more than just another book about mathematics and the art of teaching that subject. Without considering the actual topics treated (the author himself has described these in sufficient detail in of the book as a whole, the Introduction), I shall attempt to convey a general idea and describe the impressions it makes on the reader. Almost every chapter begins by considering well-known problems of elementary mathematics. Now, every worthwhile elementary problem has hidden behind its diverting formulation what might be called "higher mathematics," or, more simply, mathematics, and it is this that the author demonstrates to the reader in this book. It is thus to be expected that every chapter should contain subject matter that is far from elementary. The end result of reading the book is that the material treated has become for the reader "three-dimensional" as it were, as in a hologram, capable of being viewed from all sides. |
