| 书目名称 | Mathematicians Don‘t Work With Numbers | | 编辑 | Richard Poulo | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Explores what mathematics is really about in the form of short and entertaining vignettes.Covers a broad range of mathematical topics with a light and often humorous style.Illustrates concepts using r | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .This book answers, in the form of short and entertaining vignettes, the question: "What do mathematicians really do?" Readers will learn that mathematicians use numbers in the same way that novelists use letters. The individual letters are typed while the author thinks on a much grander scale, invisible to the observer...Requiring only familiarity with the multiplication table (and that for only one vignette), the book makes accessible a variety of mathematical concepts, such as game theory, chaos, and traffic flow modelling. The author accomplishes this with a light, engaging style, and a range of real-world examples that includes everything from barbershops to President James Garfield...Mathematicians Don‘t Work With Numbers. will be of interest to the large audience of people who have always assumed that mathematicians do, in fact, work with numbers... . | | 出版日期 | Book 2024 | | 关键词 | Mathematics introduction; Popular science; Mathematics general interest; Math philosophy; Accessible mat | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58916-4 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-58915-7 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-58916-4 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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