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Product Identifiers
PublisherDover Publications, Incorporated
ISBN-100486450201
ISBN-139780486450209
eBay Product ID (ePID)51065201
Product Key Features
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameArt of Mathematics
Publication Year2006
SubjectHistory & Philosophy, General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaMathematics
AuthorJerry P. King
SeriesDover Books on Mathematics Ser.
FormatPerfect
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight13.5 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2005-056062
Dewey Edition22
TitleLeadingThe
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal510
Table Of ContentIntroduction 1. The Unexpected 2. Pure Mathematics 3. Numbers 4. Applied Mathematics 5. Aesthetics 6. Aristocracy 7. The Two Cultures 8. Great Things 9. Epilogue Notes Index
SynopsisClear, concise, and superbly written, this book reveals the beauty at the heart of mathematics, and it makes that beauty accessible to everyone. It illustrates the fundamental connection between aesthetics and mathematics by drawing analogies between axioms, applied mathematics, paintings, and symphonies. "Witty, trenchant, and provocative." -- Mathematical Association of America., "Creative mathematicians seldom write for outsiders, but when they do, they usually do it well. Jerry King is no exception." -- Nature "Touch es] the mathematical grandeur that the first geometers contemplated." -- Publishers Weekly "Witty, trenchant, and provocative." -- Mathematical Association of America A simple algebraic formula can reduce otherwise intelligent people to shamefaced confusion. Why are so many people so puzzled by mathematics? Clear, concise, and superbly written, this book reveals the beauty at the heart of mathematics -- and it makes that beauty accessible to everyone, demonstrating the humor of calculus, the sweetness in pi, and the poetry of numbers. Mathematics professor and poet Jerry P. King writes with passion and wit of Euclid, Yeats, Poincar , and Rembrandt, drawing examples from axioms, paintings, and symphonies. The Art of Mathematics explores the difference between real, rational, and complex numbers; analyzes the intellectual underpinnings of pure and applied mathematics; and illustrates the fundamental connection between aesthetics and math. King also sheds light on how mathematicians pursue their research, and how our educational system perpetuates the imagined divisions between the "two cultures.", Darting wittily from Euclid to Yeats, from Poincare to Rembrandt, from axioms to symphonies, a math professor explores the difference between real, rational, and complex numbers--revealing the connection between aesthetics and mathematics. Sure to make number connoisseurs out of math haters., Clear, concise, and superbly written, this book reveals the beauty at the heart of mathematics, illustrating the fundamental connection between aesthetics and mathematics. "Witty, trenchant, and provocative." -- Mathematical Association of America., "Creative mathematicians seldom write for outsiders, but when they do, they usually do it well. Jerry King is no exception." -- Nature "Touch[es] the mathematical grandeur that the first geometers contemplated." -- Publishers Weekly "Witty, trenchant, and provocative." -- Mathematical Association of America A simple algebraic formula can reduce otherwise intelligent people to shamefaced confusion. Why are so many people so puzzled by mathematics? Clear, concise, and superbly written, this book reveals the beauty at the heart of mathematics -- and it makes that beauty accessible to everyone, demonstrating the humor of calculus, the sweetness in pi, and the poetry of numbers. Mathematics professor and poet Jerry P. King writes with passion and wit of Euclid, Yeats, Poincaré, and Rembrandt, drawing examples from axioms, paintings, and symphonies. The Art of Mathematics explores the difference between real, rational, and complex numbers; analyzes the intellectual underpinnings of pure and applied mathematics; and illustrates the fundamental connection between aesthetics and math. King also sheds light on how mathematicians pursue their research, and how our educational system perpetuates the imagined divisions between the "two cultures."
LC Classification NumberQA36.K47 2006
