William Leonard Schaaf
Autor de Mathematics for Everyday Use
Sobre El Autor
Series
Obras de William Leonard Schaaf
Our mathematical heritage; essays on the nature and cultural significance of mathematics (1963) 6 copias
The Calculus, a College Course Guide 6 copias
Mathematics for Mechanics 3 copias
Recreational Mathematics 2 copias
Mathematics : Our Great Heritage : Essays on the Nature and Cultural Significance of Mathematics (1948) 1 copia
Mathematics and Music 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Género
- male
Miembros
Reseñas
Found in my grandma's garage, this book changed my life, though I think I would not recommend the book so much as its purpose. Give an impressionable 14-year-old some philosophy (esp. Carl Hempel) but even more so a taste of the beautiful proofs that await beyond high school and the first calculus sequence.
An elementary math textbook in the style of Bertrand Russell's logicism.
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 24
- Miembros
- 67
- Popularidad
- #256,179
- Valoración
- 3.4
- Reseñas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 8
A good, juvenile biography of Gauss that tries to describe his work and explain some of the math he developed or, at least, trying to explain why it was significant. This book covers about as much of Gauss' life as the Tord Hall biography does and actually covers some of Gauss scientific work -- like the development of magnetic survey instruments and the co-development of the first telegraph machine -- in greater detail.