Author: Paul Lockhart
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067423751X
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Paul Lockhart reveals arithmetic not as the rote manipulation of numbers but as a set of ideas that exhibit the surprising behaviors usually reserved for higher branches of mathematics. In this entertaining survey, he explores the nature of counting and different number systems—Western and non-Western—and weighs the pluses and minuses of each.
Arithmetic
Author: Paul Lockhart
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067423751X
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Paul Lockhart reveals arithmetic not as the rote manipulation of numbers but as a set of ideas that exhibit the surprising behaviors usually reserved for higher branches of mathematics. In this entertaining survey, he explores the nature of counting and different number systems—Western and non-Western—and weighs the pluses and minuses of each.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067423751X
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Paul Lockhart reveals arithmetic not as the rote manipulation of numbers but as a set of ideas that exhibit the surprising behaviors usually reserved for higher branches of mathematics. In this entertaining survey, he explores the nature of counting and different number systems—Western and non-Western—and weighs the pluses and minuses of each.
Measurement
Author: Paul Lockhart
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674071174
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
For seven years, Paul Lockhart’s A Mathematician’s Lament enjoyed a samizdat-style popularity in the mathematics underground, before demand prompted its 2009 publication to even wider applause and debate. An impassioned critique of K–12 mathematics education, it outlined how we shortchange students by introducing them to math the wrong way. Here Lockhart offers the positive side of the math education story by showing us how math should be done. Measurement offers a permanent solution to math phobia by introducing us to mathematics as an artful way of thinking and living. In conversational prose that conveys his passion for the subject, Lockhart makes mathematics accessible without oversimplifying. He makes no more attempt to hide the challenge of mathematics than he does to shield us from its beautiful intensity. Favoring plain English and pictures over jargon and formulas, he succeeds in making complex ideas about the mathematics of shape and motion intuitive and graspable. His elegant discussion of mathematical reasoning and themes in classical geometry offers proof of his conviction that mathematics illuminates art as much as science. Lockhart leads us into a universe where beautiful designs and patterns float through our minds and do surprising, miraculous things. As we turn our thoughts to symmetry, circles, cylinders, and cones, we begin to see that almost anyone can “do the math” in a way that brings emotional and aesthetic rewards. Measurement is an invitation to summon curiosity, courage, and creativity in order to experience firsthand the playful excitement of mathematical work.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674071174
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
For seven years, Paul Lockhart’s A Mathematician’s Lament enjoyed a samizdat-style popularity in the mathematics underground, before demand prompted its 2009 publication to even wider applause and debate. An impassioned critique of K–12 mathematics education, it outlined how we shortchange students by introducing them to math the wrong way. Here Lockhart offers the positive side of the math education story by showing us how math should be done. Measurement offers a permanent solution to math phobia by introducing us to mathematics as an artful way of thinking and living. In conversational prose that conveys his passion for the subject, Lockhart makes mathematics accessible without oversimplifying. He makes no more attempt to hide the challenge of mathematics than he does to shield us from its beautiful intensity. Favoring plain English and pictures over jargon and formulas, he succeeds in making complex ideas about the mathematics of shape and motion intuitive and graspable. His elegant discussion of mathematical reasoning and themes in classical geometry offers proof of his conviction that mathematics illuminates art as much as science. Lockhart leads us into a universe where beautiful designs and patterns float through our minds and do surprising, miraculous things. As we turn our thoughts to symmetry, circles, cylinders, and cones, we begin to see that almost anyone can “do the math” in a way that brings emotional and aesthetic rewards. Measurement is an invitation to summon curiosity, courage, and creativity in order to experience firsthand the playful excitement of mathematical work.
The Bookseller
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Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Pages : 88
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Publisher and Bookseller
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1070
Book Description
Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1070
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Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
Basic Mathematics
Author: Serge Lang
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783540967873
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 475
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ISBN: 9783540967873
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 475
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The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art
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Languages : en
Pages : 924
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Languages : en
Pages : 924
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Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
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A Book of Abstract Algebra
Author: Charles C Pinter
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486474178
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Accessible but rigorous, this outstanding text encompasses all of the topics covered by a typical course in elementary abstract algebra. Its easy-to-read treatment offers an intuitive approach, featuring informal discussions followed by thematically arranged exercises. This second edition features additional exercises to improve student familiarity with applications. 1990 edition.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486474178
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Accessible but rigorous, this outstanding text encompasses all of the topics covered by a typical course in elementary abstract algebra. Its easy-to-read treatment offers an intuitive approach, featuring informal discussions followed by thematically arranged exercises. This second edition features additional exercises to improve student familiarity with applications. 1990 edition.
The Bookseller. A Handbook of British and Foreign Literature
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Languages : en
Pages : 562
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Pages : 562
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A Few Words in Answer to the Attack on My "classical School Books"
Author: Thomas Kerchever Arnold
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Category : Classical languages
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Category : Classical languages
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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