Mathematics Is Not a Spectator Sport

Softcover Nachdruck of hardcover 1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-4419-2061-4
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 394 g

It is often said that mathematics and music go together, and that people with a special aptitude for mathematics often have similar gifts in music. Some music is very profound, and listeners find that there is far more in it than they appreciated at a first hearing. A similar point can be made about an understanding of mathematics.

This book introduces the reader to various topics in mathematics and is intended for precocious high school students and college students just beginning their study of mathematics. The topics discussed in this book include a variety of results in number theory involving squares, and also complex numbers, early algebraic ideas such as the Euclidean algorithm, geometrical constructions created by the Greeks, and more recent topics such as group theory.

Zielgruppe

Lower undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Phillips, George

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Geometrie Elementare Geometrie: Allgemeines
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Algebra Zahlentheorie
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematische Analysis Elementare Analysis und Allgemeine Begriffe
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Algebra Lineare und multilineare Algebra, Matrizentheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Squares.- Numbers, Numbers Everywhere.- Fibonacci Numbers.- Prime Numbers.- Choice and Chance.- Geometrical Constructions.- The Algebra of Group.

Über Autor(innen)

George Phillips is Professor of Mathematics at St. Andrews University, Scotland. He is the author of two previous books also published by Springer, Two Millenia of Mathematics (2000), and Interpolation and Approximation by Polynomials (2003).