Rota: George Polya Collected Papers – Probability Combinaories Teaching & Learn Etc: v. 4 - Hardcover

Rota, Gregory.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262160978 ISBN 13: 9780262160971

Publisher: MIT Press, 1984

Synopsis

This volume completes the publication of the collected papers of George Polya, one of the most influential mathematicians and teachers of our time. Volumes I ("Singularities of Analytic Functions") and II ("Location of Zeros") were published in 1974.Volume IV presents 20 papers on probability, 17 on combinatorics, and 18 on the teaching and learning of mathematics. Polya has made a number of fundamental contributions to the first two fields, including perhaps the first use of the term "central limit theorem," but his major influence on mathematics has clearly been his approach to pedagogy. Many of the papers throughout these volumes have a strongly pedagogical flavor, but the papers in the third section of this volume focus squarely on the real business of how to do mathematics--how to formulate a problem and then create a solution.This volume is the twenty-third in the series Mathematicians of Our Time, edited by Gian-Carlo Rota.

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Review

"George Polya is one of the celebrated school of Hungarian analysts who made such important contributions to mathematics in the first half of this century... all Polya's published work is characterized by an elegance of style and a clarity of presentation which often make difficult results appear simpler than they are. Any reader must be impressed by the effort the author takes to explain all the ideas with the utmost lucidity."-- ""The Times Higher Educational Supplement" (review of volumes I and II)"

Edition details

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0262160978
• ISBN 13: 9780262160971
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 676