What Is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods by Herbert Robbins, Richard Courant

What Is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods

Herbert Robbins, Richard Courant

592 pages first pub 1941 (editions)

nonfiction mathematics science challenging informative slow-paced

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For more than two thousand years a familiarity with mathematics has been regarded as an indispensable part of the intellectual equipment of every cultured person. Today, unfortunately, the traditional place of mathematics in education is in grave ...

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