Mathematics and the imagination
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Mathematics and the imagination
Tempus Books of Microsoft Press , Distributed to the book trade in the United States by Harper & Row, c1989
- : pbk.
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Reprint. Originally published: New York : Simon and Schuster, 1940
"A brilliant and entirely charming book about the subject from which most of us run away in terror ..."
"The new republic"
Bibliography: p. 363-368
Includes index
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Description
Emphasizes the approach to mathematics rather than an explanation of the hows and whys of the subject. The author argues that maths is analogous to a fairyland ruled by logic, and that the only restraint on what math can provide is the reader's lack of imagination in using its principles.
by "Nielsen BookData"