What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods (Oxford Paperbacks) - Softcover

Courant, The Late Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195105192 ISBN 13: 9780195105193

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1996

Synopsis

"Lucid...[and] easily understandable."--Albert Einstein

About this title

About the Author

The late Richard Courant, headed the Department of Mathematics at New York University and was Director of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences--which has subsequently renamed the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. His book Mathematical Physics is familiar to every physicist, and his book Differential and Integral Calculus is acknowledged to be one of the best presentations of the subject written in modern times. Herbert Robbins is New Jersey Professor of Mathematical Statistics at Rutgers University. Ian Stewart is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick, and author of Nature's Numbers and Does God Play Dice?. He also writes the "Mathematical Recreations" column in Scientific American.

From the Back Cover

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195105192
• ISBN 13: 9780195105193
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 592