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Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction by Timothy Gowers

Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction Timothy Gowers ebook
Format: pdf
Page: 129
ISBN: 0192853619, 9780192853615
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Initiated in 1995, the series now comprises succinct Surely it's harder to squeeze the disciplines of philosophy or history or mathematics into 25,000 words than to do the same for cinema, which has a relatively brief history. Book aims to explain, carefully but not technically, the differences between advanced, research-level maths, and the sort of maths we learn at school. Description: Click to see full description. Very Short Introductions - General Series - Series - Academic. But the topic it introduces is not standard logic. This is a book more about its author than its subject. Already in your book “Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction” you noted the “myth of music and maths”, and recently I stumbled with an extended opinion of yours published in the “The Independent”. In addition to scholarly papers on mathematics, Gowers is also the author of A Very Short Introduction to Mathematics and other works popularizing mathematics. Functional programming is all about functions (I doubt that comes as much of a surprise). Firstly, books in the series are often more strongly opinionated than one might like in a general introduction. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: introduction, short, statistics, very |. Title: Globalization – A Very Short Introduction Author(s): Manfred B. The “Very Short Introductions” series is by and large very good, but I have two concerns. That is not to say that it is too hard to be introductory, it is not, if you are even the slightest bit bold in the face of a little bit of symbolism and mathematics. Read Hawkings "Universe in a Nutshell" where he reveals how bad we all are at visualisation, and Gowers "Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction". "Leonard Smith's Chaos (part of the Oxford Very Short Introduction series) will give you the clearest (but not too painful idea) of the maths involved There's a. Before I can get onto closures, I need to give a very brief introduction to functional programming. Graham Priest's Logic: A very short introduction is very short and is about logic. Review of Graham Priest's Logic: A very short introduction. True to their moniker, the Very Short Introductions are very short books (not extreme-ultra short, I hasten to add) aimed at literate nonspecialists who seek a concise overview of a more or less unfamiliar field. Summary: “Globalization” has become the buzz-word of our time.