What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods

Courant, Richard; Robbins, Herbert

ISBN 10: 0195105192 / ISBN 13: 9780195105193

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 1996

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Titel: What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach ...

Verlag: Oxford University Press

Erscheinungsdatum: 1996

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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.