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What is Mathematics?
Language: en
Pages: 596
Authors: Richard Courant
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: OUP Us

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The teaching and learning of mathematics has degenerated into the realm of rote memorization, the outcome of which leads to satisfactory formal ability but not
What Is Mathematics?
Language: en
Pages: 596
Authors: the late Richard Courant
Categories: Mathematics
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-07-18 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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For more than two thousand years a familiarity with mathematics has been regarded as an indispensable part of the intellectual equipment of every cultured perso
What Is Mathematics, Really?
Language: en
Pages: 368
Authors: Reuben Hersh
Categories: Mathematics
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-08-21 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Most philosophers of mathematics treat it as isolated, timeless, ahistorical, inhuman. Reuben Hersh argues the contrary, that mathematics must be understood as
What is Mathematics?
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Richard Courant
Categories: Mathematics
Type: BOOK - Published: 1960 - Publisher:

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Mathematics for Human Flourishing
Language: en
Pages: 287
Authors: Francis Su
Categories: Mathematics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-01-07 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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Winner of the Mathematics Association of America's 2021 Euler Book Prize, this is an inclusive vision of mathematics—its beauty, its humanity, and its power t