Introduction to Mathematics (Dover Books on Mathematics) - Softcover

Whitehead, Alfred

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486813665 ISBN 13: 9780486813660

Publisher: Dover Publications Inc, 2017

Synopsis

A concise statement on the nature and meaning of mathematics for the general student, this volume by a prominent English philosopher and mathematician explains what math is about, what it does, and how mathematicians do it. Generations of readers have benefited from this book, about which The New York Times remarked decades ago: "Whitehead doesn't popularize or make palatable; he is simply lucid and cogent ... should delight you."

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About the Author

Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947) studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, and taught mathematics there for 16 years, afterward teaching math at University College, London, and the Imperial College of Science and Technology and serving as an instructor in philosophy at Harvard University. Whitehead wrote many books on science, mathematics, and philosophy; between 1910 - 13 he completed, with Bertrand Russell, his greatest mathematical work, Principia Mathematica.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0486813665
• ISBN 13: 9780486813660
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256