Mathematics today : twelve informal essays

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Mathematics today : twelve informal essays

edited by Lynn Arthur Steen

Vintage Books, 1980

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Mathematics today

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Reprint of the 1978 ed. published by Springer-Verlag, New York

Bibliography: p. [355]-357

Includes index

Contents of Works

  • Mathematics today / Lynn Arthur Steen
  • Mathematics : our invisible culture / Allen L. Hammond
  • Number theory / Ian Richards
  • Groups and symmetry / Jonathan Alperin
  • The geometry of the universe / Roger Penrose
  • The mathematics of meteorology / Philip Thompson
  • The four color problem / Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken
  • Combinatorial scheduling theory / Ronald Graham
  • Statistical analysis of experimental data / David S. Moore
  • What is a computation? / Martin Davis
  • Mathematics as a tool for economic understanding / Jacob Schwartz
  • Mathematical aspects of population biology / Frank C. Hoppensteadt
  • The relevance of mathematics / Felix E. Browder and Saunders Mac Lane

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