Mathematics : a very short introduction /

• Main Author: Gowers, Timothy (1963-) (1963-) (συγγραφέας.)
• Format: Book
• Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002.
• Series: Very short introductions (Oxford University Press) 66.
• Subjects: Μαθηματικά

Mathematics is a subject we are all exposed to in our daily lives, but one which many of us fear. In this introduction, Timothy Gowers elucidates the most fundamental differences, which are primarily philosophical, between advanced mathematics and what we learn at school, so that one emerges with a...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• List of diagrams
• 1. Models
• 2. Numbers and abstraction
• 3. Proofs
• 4. Limits and infinity
• 5. Dimension
• 6. Geometry
• 7. Estimates and approximations
• 8. Some frequently asked questions
• Further reading
• Index.