Mathematics today : twelve informal essays
edited by Lynn Arthur Steen.
New York : Springer-Verlag, ©1978.
viii, 367 págs. : ilustraciones ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0387903054 (New York), 3540903054 (Berlin)
"Second, corrected printing, 1979".
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Reseña: MathSciNet, 80b:00007
Contenido
- Steen, L. A. Mathematics today
- Hammond, A. L. Mathematics, our invisible culture
- Richards, I. Number theory
- Alperin, J. Groups and symmetry
- Penrose, R. The Geometry of the universe
- Thompson, P. The Mathematics of meteorology
- Appel, K. and Haken, W. The Four color problem
- Graham, R. Combinatorial scheduling theory
- Moore, D. S. Statistical analysis of experimental data
- Davis, M. What is a computation?
- Schwartz, J. Mathematics as a tool for economic understanding
- Hoppensteadt, F. C. Mathematical aspects of population biology
- Browder, F. E. and Mac Lane, S. The relevance of mathematics.