What is mathematics? : an elementary approach to ideas and methods / by Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins.
Material type: TextPublisher: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 1996Publisher: c1996Edition: Second edition. revised by Ian StewartDescription: 566 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780195687101 (pbk.)
- 9780195105193 (hbk.)
- 510 COU 23 016269
- QA37.2 .C69 1996
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 549-558) and index.
Chapter I. The natural numbers --
Supplement to Chapter I. The theory of numbers --
Chapter II. The number system of mathematics --
Supplement to Chapter II. The algebra of sets --
Chapter III. Geometrical construction. The algebra of number fields --
Chapter IV. Projective geometry. axiomatics. non-euclidean geometries --
Chapter V. Topology --
Chapter VI. Functions and limits --
Supplement to Chapter VI. More examples on limits and continuity --
Chapter VII. Maxima and minima --
Chapter VIII. The calculus --
Supplement to Chapter VIII --
Chapter IX. Recent developments --
Appendix: supplementary remarks, problems, and exercises.
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."--Jacket.
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