| 紀錄類型: |
書目-語言資料,印刷品
: Monograph/item
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| 杜威分類號: |
510 |
| 書名/作者: |
What is mathematics? : : an elementary approach to ideas and methods // by Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins. |
| 作者: |
Courant, Richard, |
| 其他作者: |
Robbins, Herbert. |
| 出版者: |
New York : : Oxford University Press,, 1996. |
| 面頁冊數: |
566 p. : : ill. ;; 23 cm. |
| 附註: |
"First published in 1941 by Oxford University Press, Inc. First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1978. First published as a second edition, 1996"--T.p. verso. |
| 標題: |
Mathematics. |
| 標題: |
Math©♭matiques. |
| 標題: |
Wiskunde. |
| 標題: |
Mathematik. |
| ISBN: |
9780195105193 (pbk.) |
| ISBN: |
0195105192 |
| 書目註: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 549-558) and index. |
| 內容註: |
Chapter I. The natural numbers -- Supplement to Chapter I. The theory of numbers -- Chapter II. The number system of mathematics -- Supplement to Chapter II. The algebra of sets -- Chapter III. Geometrical construction. The algebra of number fields -- Chapter IV. Projective geometry. axiomatics. non-euclidean geometries -- Chapter V. Topology -- Chapter VI. Functions and limits -- Supplement to Chapter VI. More examples on limits and continuity -- Chapter VII. Maxima and minima -- Chapter VIII. The calculus -- Supplement to Chapter VIII -- Chapter IX. Recent developments -- Appendix: supplementary remarks, problems, and exercises. |
| 摘要、提要註: |
"Written for beginners and scholars, for students and teachers, for philosophers and engineers, What is Mathematics? is a sparkling collection of mathematical gems that offers an entertaining and accessible portrait of the mathematical world. Brought up to date with a new chapter by Ian Stewart, this second edition offers new insights into recent mathematical developments and describes proofs of the Four-Color Theorem and Fermat's Last Theorem, problems that were still open when Courant and Robbins wrote this masterpiece, but ones that have since been solved."--BOOK JACKET. |