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What is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods

Paperback • 1996

What is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods

By Richard Courant, Herbert Robbins

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For more than two thousand years a familiarity with mathematics has been regarded as an indispensable part of the intellectual equipment of every cultured person. Today, unfortunately, the traditional place of mathematics in education is in grave danger. The teaching and learning of mathematics has degenerated into the realm of rote memorization, the outcome of which leads to satisfactory formal ability but does not lead to real understanding or to greaterintellectual independence. This new edit...Show more

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9780195105193

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1996

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