Elements of mathematics : from Euclid to Gödel / John Stillwell.
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TextPublisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2016]Description: xiv, 422 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780691171685; 0691171688; 9780691178547; 0691178542Subject(s): Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Higher) | Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Higher)DDC classification: 510.71/1 LOC classification: QA11.2 | .S8485 2016| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-403) and index.
Elementary topics -- Arithmetic -- Computation -- Algebra -- Geometry -- Calculus -- Combinatorics -- Probability -- Logic -- Some advanced mathematics.
"Elements of Mathematics takes readers on a fascinating tour that begins in elementary mathematics but, as John Stillwell shows, this subject is not as elementary or straightforward as one might think. Not all topics that are part of today's elementary mathematics were always considered as such, and great mathematical advances and discoveries had to occur in order for certain subjects to become "elementary." Stillwell examines elementary mathematics from a distinctive twenty-first-century viewpoint and describes not only the beauty and scope of the discipline, but also its limits."--Dust jacket.
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