Askew Mike - Mathematics: All That Matters - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Mathematics often gets a bad press. Describing someone as 'calculating or 'rational is hardly as flattering as being labelled 'artistic or 'creative and mathematicians in movies or novels are often portrayed as social misfits who rarely get the guy or girl. No wonder some folks say 'oh I don't care for mathematics I was never any good at it with a wistful sense of pride. Yet professional mathematicians talk of the subject differently. They look for elegant solutions to problems revel in playing around with mathematical ideas and talk of the creative nature of mathematics. As the Russian mathematician Sophia Kovalevskaya said " It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul." By looking at some of the history of mathematics psychological studies into how we come to know mathematics and key ideas in mathematics itself this book will if not make you fall in love with mathematics then at least come to understand its nature a little better. Perhaps after reading you will even care a little more for it.
Title: Mathematics: All That Matters
Author(s): Askew Mike
Publisher: John Murray Press
Barcode: 9781473601734
Pages: 160 Pages
Publication Date: 2/26/2015
Series: All That Matters
Category: Educational: Mathematics & Numeracy