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Masters of mathematics : the problems they solved, why these are important, and what you should know about them /
The original title for this work was "Mathematical Literacy, What Is It and Why You Need it". The current title reflects that there can be no real learning in any subject, unless questions of who, what, when, where, why and how are raised in the minds of the learners. The book is not a mat...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Rotterdam, The Netherlands :
Sense Publishers,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Mathematics as a labor-saving device
- All about 'e' (well, almost all)
- What else did Euler do?
- No mathematical work is ever wasted
- I have never done anything like others
- Doing the impossible
- "Mathematics is a genderless world"
- Karen Uhlenbeck
- The reluctant mathematician
- Programmer
- Rabbits & patterns
- The man who loved only numbers
- A short history of pi
- Measure by measure (length)
- Large and small
- And, yet it moves
- Measure and measure reprise (area and perimeter, the metric system)
- Logical nonsense
- Map coloring
- Pearl.