Mathematics today
Subtitle: twelve informal essays
By: edited by Lynn Arthur Steen.
Contributors: Steen, Lynn Arthur, 1941-
Publisher: Vintage Books; Random House Inc (P)
Published: 1980
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
Subjects: Mathematics -- Addresses, essays, lectures
Notes: Bibliography: p. [355]-357.
Reprint of the 1978 ed. published by Springer-Verlag, New York.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Steen, L. A. Mathematics today.; title: Hammond, A. L. Mathematics, our invisible culture.; title: Richards, I. Number theory.; title: Alperin, J. Groups and symmetry.; title: Penrose, R. The geometry of the universe.; title: Thompson, P. The mathematics of meteorology.; title: Appel, K. and Haken, W. The four color problem.; title: Graham, R. Combinatorial scheduling theory.; title: Moore, D. S. Statistical analysis of experimental data.; title: Davis, M. What is a computation?.; title: Schwartz, J. Mathematics as a tool for economic understanding.; title: Hoppenstead, F. C. Mathematical aspects of population biology.; title: Browder, F. E. and Lane, S. M. The relevance of mathematics.