What is Mathematics?
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| What is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods |
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 Cover of 1996 second edition. |
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| Author | Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins |
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| Language | English |
| Subject(s) | Mathematics |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Publication date | 1941 |
| ISBN | 0195025172 |
What is Mathematics? is a mathematics book written by Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins. It is an introduction to mathematics, intended both for the mathematics student and for the general public.
First published in 1941, it discusses number theory, geometry, topology and calculus. A second edition was published in 1996 with an additional chapter on recent progress in mathematics, written by Ian Stewart.
[edit] References
- Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins (1941). What is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods. London: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195025172.
- (1996) 2nd edition, with additional material by Ian Stewart. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195105192.
- What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods, book review by Brian E. Blank, Notices of the American Mathematical Society 48, #11 (December 2001), pp. 1325–1329.
- What Is Mathematics?, book review by Leonard Gillman, The American Mathematical Monthly 105, #5 (May 1998), pp. 485–488.
- What Is Mathematics?, book review by G. L. Alexanderson, The Two-Year College Mathematics Journal 10, #1 (January 1979), pp. 40–42.
