Easy as π?: An Introduction to Higher Mathematics - Softcover

Ivanov, Oleg A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0387985212 ISBN 13: 9780387985213

Publisher: Springer, 1998

Synopsis

The present book is rare, even unique of its kind, at least among mathematics texts published in Russian. You have before you neither a textbook nor a monograph, although these selected chapters from elementary mathematics certainly constitute a fine educational tool. It is my opinion that this is more than just another book about mathematics and the art of teaching that subject. Without considering the actual topics treated (the author himself has described these in sufficient detail in of the book as a whole, the Introduction), I shall attempt to convey a general idea and describe the impressions it makes on the reader. Almost every chapter begins by considering well-known problems of elementary mathematics. Now, every worthwhile elementary problem has hidden behind its diverting formulation what might be called "higher mathematics," or, more simply, mathematics, and it is this that the author demonstrates to the reader in this book. It is thus to be expected that every chapter should contain subject matter that is far from elementary. The end result of reading the book is that the material treated has become for the reader "three-dimensional" as it were, as in a hologram, capable of being viewed from all sides.

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Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Russian

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0387985212
• ISBN 13: 9780387985213
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208