Easy as Pi?: An Introduction to Higher Mathematics : An Introduction to Higher Mathematics

O. A. Ivanov

ISBN 10: 0387985212 / ISBN 13: 9780387985213

Published by Springer New York, 1998

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Gebraucht - Sehr gut Mängelexemplar mit leichten Lagerspuren, Sofortversand - This book aims at introducing the reader possessing some high school mathematics, to both the higher and the more fundamental developments of the basic themes of elementary mathematics. To this end most chapters begin with a series of elementary problems, behind whose diverting formulation more advanced mathematical ideas lie hidden. These are then made explicit and further developments explored, thereby deepening and broadening the reader's understanding of mathematics -- enabling him or her to see mathematics as a hologram. The book arose from a course for potential high school teachers of mathematics taught for several years at St. Petersburg University, and nearly every chapter ends with an interesting commentary on the relevance of its subject matter to the actual classroom setting. However it can be recommended to a much wider readership, including university-level mathematics majors; even the professional mathematician will derive much pleasurable instruction from reading it.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Easy as Pi?: An Introduction to Higher Mathematics : An Introduction to Higher Mathematics
• Publisher: Springer New York
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0387985212
• ISBN 13: 9780387985213
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Dimensions: 235W x 155H x 11D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 11 millimeters depth
• Weight: 324 grams

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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.

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Russian