How the Other Half Thinks: Adventures in Mathematical Reasoning

Sherman Stein (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2002 | New edition
McGraw-Hill Professional (Verlag)
978-0-07-140798-4 (ISBN)

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An entertaining, interactive mathematical exercise and an exploration of mathematical reasoning, this work is of interest to the enthusiast and the novice, the scientist and the humanist, and the left-brained and the right-brained. It appeals to those enthusiasts who are charmed by mathematics and its style of thinking.

With its ingeniously intuitive approach, "How the Other Half Thinks" will appeal to those enthusiasts who are charmed by mathematics and its style of thinking, as well as those more tentative readers who would like to find out why advanced mathematics casts a spell over so many of its followers. At once an entertaining, interactive mathematical exercise and an innovative exploration of mathematical reasoning, it will appeal to the enthusiast and the novice, the scientist and the humanist, and the left-brained and the right-brained.

Sherman Stein, Ph.D., has taught at the University of California at Davis. He is the recipient of the Lester R. Ford Award for Mathematical Exposition and the B eckenback Book Prize for Algebra and Tiling (with S. Szabo). He also received the Distinguished Teaching Award at his campus and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Marietta College.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.9.2002
Sprache	englisch
Maße	137 x 211 mm
Gewicht	250 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik
ISBN-10	0-07-140798-7 / 0071407987
ISBN-13	978-0-07-140798-4 / 9780071407984
Zustand	Neuware