The Nature of Mathematics - Hardcover

Smith, Karl J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0534215645 ISBN 13: 9780534215644

Publisher: Brooks Cole, 1994

Synopsis

Smith designed this broad-based survey of mathematics with the idea that all students will need competence in essential areas of mathematics to function in our technological world. This edition marks the 20th anniversary of Smiths leading liberal arts textbook. Not content to rest on its history, this major revision now includes a great deal of new material and many new features. In addition to including the great ideas of mathematics, the 7th Edition also includes new material on estimation, precision, accuracy, and most of all, problem solving.

About this title

About the Author

Karl Smith is professor emeritus at Santa Rosa Junior College in Santa Rosa, California. He has written over 36 mathematics textbooks and believes that students can learn mathematics if it is presented to them through the use of concrete examples designed to develop original thinking, abstraction, and problem-solving skills. Over one million students have learned mathematics from Karl Smith's textbooks.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brooks Cole
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0534215645
• ISBN 13: 9780534215644
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 832