How the Other Half Thinks: Adventures in Mathematical Reasoning
Published on 16. September 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-07-140798-4 (ISBN)
Description
With its ingeniously intuitive approach, "How the Other Half Thinks" will appeal to those enthusiasts who are charmed by mathematics and its style of thinking, as well as those more tentative readers who would like to find out why advanced mathematics casts a spell over so many of its followers. At once an entertaining, interactive mathematical exercise and an innovative exploration of mathematical reasoning, it will appeal to the enthusiast and the novice, the scientist and the humanist, and the left-brained and the right-brained.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 211 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
250 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-140798-4 (9780071407984)
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Sherman Stein, Ph.D., has taught at the University of California at Davis. He is the recipient of the Lester R. Ford Award for Mathematical Exposition and the B eckenback Book Prize for Algebra and Tiling (with S. Szabo). He also received the Distinguished Teaching Award at his campus and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Marietta College.