Mathematician's delight / by W.W. Sawyer
1962, Reprint. Harmondsworth : Penguin. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #451939
Physical description; 238 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. Notes; Includes index. Contents; Part I. The approach to mathematics. The dread of mathematics ; Geometry : the science of furniture and walls ; The nature of reasoning ; The strategy and tactics of study -- Part II. On certain parts of mathematics. Arithmetic ; How to forget the multiplication table ; Algebra : the shorthand of mathematics ; Ways of growing ; Graphs, of thinking in pictures ; Differential calculus : the study of speed ; From speed to curves ; Other problems of calculus ; Trigonometry, or how to make tunnels and maps ; On backgrounds ; The square root of minus one. Subjects; Mathematics. Mathematics ; Popular works. Geometry, Analytic.
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