Robert Tubbs

Broschiertes Buch

What Is a Number?

Mathematical Concepts and Their Origins

Beschreibung

This historic and thematic study refutes the received wisdom that mathematical concepts are esoteric and divorced from other intellectual pursuits--revealing them instead as dynamic and intrinsic to almost every human endeavor.

Autor

Robert Tubbs is an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Colorado-Boulder and author of What Is a Number? Mathematical Concepts and Their Origins, also published by Johns Hopkins.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 150mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780801890185
• ISBN-10: 0801890187
• Artikelnr.: 24350220