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What is Mathematics?
Author | : Richard Courant |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 596 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780195105193 |
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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 real understanding or greater intellectual independence. The new edition of this classic work seeks to address this problem. Its goal is to put the meaning back into mathematics. "Lucid . . . easily understandable".--Albert Einstein. 301 linecuts.
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