What Is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods, Edition 2
the late Richard Courant · Herbert Robbins
Jul 1996 · Oxford University Press
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Written for beginners and scholars, for students and teachers, for philosophers and engineers, What is Mathematics?, Second Edition is a sparkling collection of mathematical gems that offers an entertaining and accessible portrait of the mathematical world. Covering everything from natural numbers and the number system to geometrical constructions and projective geometry, from topology and calculus to matters of principle and the Continuum Hypothesis, this fascinating survey allows readers to delve into mathematics as an organic whole rather than an empty drill in problem solving.
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Deepanshu Kush
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November 12, 2013
This book cover most of the branches of mathematics in great detail. Each chapter starts out on a very basic level and goes till a really high level. I haven't read the entire book yet but I can definitely say that I have thoroughly enjoyed reading the first few chapters, especially the real analysis one.
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Shikhar Maheshwari
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July 17, 2017
Nothing can be more comprehensive and lucid to occupy all of mathematics in one book.
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Sanjiv Prasad
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February 11, 2018
Love mathematics so much !!!!!! My favourite subject !!.....😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘
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The late Richard Courant, headed the Department of Mathematicas 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.
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