Mathematics: The Man-Made Universe - Brossura

Stein, Sherman K.

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ISBN 10: 0486404501 ISBN 13: 9780486404509

Casa editrice: Dover Pubns, 2010

Riassunto

Anyone can appreciate the beauty, depth, and vitality of mathematics with the help of this highly readable text, specially developed from a college course designed to appeal to students in a variety of fields. Readers with little mathematical background are exposed to a broad range of subjects chosen from number theory, topology, set theory, geometry, algebra, and analysis.
Starting with a survey of questions on weight, the text discusses the primes, the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, rationals and irrationals, tiling, tiling and electricity, probability, infinite sets, and many other topics. Each subject illustrates a significant idea and lends itself easily to experiments and problems. Useful appendices offer an overview of the basic ideas of arithmetic, the rudiments of algebra, suggestions on teaching mathematics, and much more, including answers and comments for selected exercises.

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Informazioni sull?autore

An emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Davis, Sherman K. Stein is the author of a longtime bestselling calculus book for McGraw-Hill.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Dover Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0486404501
• ISBN 13: 9780486404509
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 575
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: Soc. Agr. La Raia Ss; http://www.la-raia.it; ; Strada Monterotondo, 79; Novi Ligure; 15067; Italia