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Spectrum Ser.: Mathematics : Queen and Servant of Science by E. T. Bell (1996, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherAmerican Mathematical Society

ISBN-100883854473

ISBN-139780883854471

eBay Product ID (ePID)999160

Product Key Features

Number of Pages463 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameMathematics : Queen and Servant of Science

Publication Year1996

SubjectGeneral

FeaturesReprint

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaMathematics

AuthorE. T. Bell

SeriesSpectrum Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight18.9 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN87-062937

Dewey Edition20

Reviews‘The book deserves a place in today’s market. It is rewarding reading for teachers and students at all mathematical levels.’Morris Kline, 'The book deserves a place in today's market. It is rewarding reading for teachers and students at all mathematical levels.' Morris Kline

Dewey Decimal510.9

Table Of Content1. Points of view; 2. Mathematical truth; 3. Breaking bounds; 4. ‘The same, yet not the same’; 5. The art of abstraction; 6. Oaks from acorns; 7. Pictorial thinking; 8. Landmarks old and new; 9. Groups; 10. A metrical universe; 11. The queen of mathematics; 12. Abstraction and prediction; 13. From cyzius to neptune; 14. Two kinds of picture; 15. The chief instrument of applied mathematics; 16. Further calculuses; 17. Waves and vibrations; 18. Choice and chance; 19. ‘Storming the heavens’; 20. Bedrock.

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SynopsisAn absorbing account of pure and applied mathematics from the geometry of Euclid to that of Riemann, and its application in Einstein's theory of relativity. The twenty chapters cover such topics as: algebra, number theory, logic, probability, infinite sets and the foundations of mathematics, rings, matrices, transformations, groups, geometry, and topology. Mathematics was republished in 1987 with corrections and an added foreword by Martin Gardner.

LC Classification NumberQA21 .B42 1987