Mathematical Analysis - Functions of One Variable (Hardcover, 2003 ed.)

For more than two thousand years some familiarity with mathematics has been regarded as an indispensable part of the intellectual equipment of every cultured person. Today the traditional place of mathematics in education is in grave danger. Unfortunately, professional representatives of mathematics share in the reponsibiIity. The teaching of mathematics has sometimes degen erated into empty drill in problem solving, which may develop formal ability but does not lead to real understanding or to greater intellectual indepen dence. Mathematical research has shown a tendency toward overspecialization and over-emphasis on abstraction. Applications and connections with other fields have been neglected . . . But . . . understanding of mathematics cannot be transmitted by painless entertainment any more than education in music can be brought by the most brilliant journalism to those who never have lis tened intensively. Actual contact with the content of living mathematics is necessary. Nevertheless technicalities and detours should be avoided, and the presentation of mathematics should be just as free from emphasis on routine as from forbidding dogmatism which refuses to disclose motive or goal and which is an unfair obstacle to honest effort. (From the preface to the first edition of What is Mathematics? by Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins, 1941."

General

Imprint:	Birkhauser Boston
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2003
First published:	2003
Authors:	Mariano Giaquinta • Giuseppe Modica
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	353
Edition:	2003 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-8176-4312-6
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Calculus & mathematical analysis > Vector & tensor analysis
LSN:	0-8176-4312-5
Barcode:	9780817643126

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