Title: A guide to mathematics for the intelligent nonmathematician,
Authors: Berkeley, Edmund Callis.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Year: 1966
Subjects: Mathematics Popular works
Contents: The iceberg mathematics -- The hidden seeds -- Understanding mathematics -- The ideas of mathematics -- The numbers that are used often --- Estimating and its simple arithmetic -- The long reach of estimating -- Estimating, and being right -- Mathematics: Variables -- Formulas -- Functions and graphs -- Derivatives -- Integrals -- Equations -- Angles -- Logic: Properties and relations -- Statistics: Probability and frequency distributions -- Going from ordinary language into mathematics -- Kids of problems--and mathematics -- Computers and mathematics -- The "New Math" and mathematical education -- Predicting the future, and running risks -- The future and mathematics -- Appendices: A short introduction to algebra -- Studying by yourself.