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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A Fantastic piece of literature. It is a guide to an amazing
new world for those of us, who will never become the next
Fermat or Gauss. Kline writes in such a way that you are
drawn into the whole mathematic principle, from history to
thought processes all of the time keeping the reader aware
of the implication of this new concept on our reality.
Brillant!!!!
new world for those of us, who will never become the next
Fermat or Gauss. Kline writes in such a way that you are
drawn into the whole mathematic principle, from history to
thought processes all of the time keeping the reader aware
of the implication of this new concept on our reality.
Brillant!!!!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is the book on mathematics I have been hoping to find for many years.
For a non-mathematician who wants to get a good functioning overview and practical understanding of the whole subject this book is perfect. The book takes a historical and philosophical approach taking us from the Egyptians, Babylonians, Greeks, Hindus and Arabs up to the modern era and Einstein. However, despite all of the fascinating background historical information, this is not a history of mathematics, it is a real mathematics book and is full of clear examples of problems and additional exercises (with answers).
The book progresses from logic, to arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, statistics, probability, and non-Euclidian geometries.
The book is also rich on its discussions of mathematical applications and goes into some depth regarding astronomy, painting and perspective, physical laws of motion and gravity, and music.
Morris Kline was Emeritus Professor of Math and New York University. The book was first published in 1967 and is a real classic.
For a non-mathematician who wants to get a good functioning overview and practical understanding of the whole subject this book is perfect. The book takes a historical and philosophical approach taking us from the Egyptians, Babylonians, Greeks, Hindus and Arabs up to the modern era and Einstein. However, despite all of the fascinating background historical information, this is not a history of mathematics, it is a real mathematics book and is full of clear examples of problems and additional exercises (with answers).
The book progresses from logic, to arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, statistics, probability, and non-Euclidian geometries.
The book is also rich on its discussions of mathematical applications and goes into some depth regarding astronomy, painting and perspective, physical laws of motion and gravity, and music.
Morris Kline was Emeritus Professor of Math and New York University. The book was first published in 1967 and is a real classic.
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60 of 61 people found the following review helpful
A big book about math
30 Aug 2003
Format:Paperback
This book was originally written as a textbook (for a math-for-the-non-mathematician type course). It can be used as one (though as a textbook it's a bit dated), read cover-to-cover for edification and pleasure (the style is a bit more instructional than the average popular math book), or dipped into here and there for the topics the reader personally finds interesting. With well over 500 pages of fairly small print, there's a lot here, covering a wide variety of topics, with (it seems to me) particular emphasis on history, geometry (of various kinds), and applications of math to physics. If you leaf through the book, you'll find some pages of nothing but text, some pages full of geometrical diagrams, some of equations and formulas, and even a few Renaissance paintings (in the discussion on mathematical perspective). With so much here, readers will probably find some parts more interesting than others--though which parts are the interesting ones may be a matter of personal opinion.
34 of 36 people found the following review helpful
Interesting stuff.....
2 Oct 2005
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I am not a mathematician. I just happen to use math everyday in my trade. Just the usual stuff you use in finance. But I am interested in math, maybe just for fun (??!!). And I found this book to be very well written, very interesting and also it has a lot of history so you get to learn a lot and maybe in doing so, you also get to understand more clearly things that just pass you by when you were at school but you didn't really grasp them. This is math pageturner..I'm not kidding !!!
32 of 34 people found the following review helpful
Essential reference for a beginning student in math
28 Aug 2001
Format:Paperback
A must have for the mathmatically curious. The subject seaquence is laid out in a logical order. Beginning with the premises of inductive vs. deductive reasoning, basic algebra, geometry, and the Calculus. This is not a good book for becoming proficient in sepcific areas of mathematics, but offered for me at least, a logical reference point for approaching the core sujects. I highly recommend this book for self-study.
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