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Mathematics: All That Matters
Engelsk Paperback
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Mathematics: All That Matters
Engelsk Paperback

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Mathematics often gets a bad press. Describing someone as ''calculating'' or ''rational'' is hardly as flattering as being labelled ''artistic'' or ''creative'' and mathematicians in movies or novels are often portrayed as social misfits who rarely get the guy or girl. No wonder some folks say ''oh I don''t care for mathematics, I was never any good at it'' with a wistful sense of pride.

Yet professional mathematicians talk of the subject differently. They look for elegant solutions to problems, revel in playing around with mathematical ideas and talk of the creative nature of mathematics. As the Russian mathematician Sophia Kovalevskaya said "It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul."

By looking at some of the history of mathematics, psychological studies into how we come to know mathematics and key ideas in mathematics itself, this book will, if not make you fall in love with mathematics, then at least come to understand its nature a little better. Perhaps after reading, you will even care a little more for it.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
160
ISBN-13:
9781473601734
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1473601738
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
26 feb 2015
Længde:
13mm
Bredde:
129mm
Højde:
179mm
Forlag:
John Murray Press
Oplagsdato:
26 feb 2015
Forfatter(e):
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