Title | Mathematics Today Twelve Informal Essays [electronic resource] / edited by Lynn Arthur Steen |
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Imprint | New York, NY : Springer New York, 1978 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9435-8 |
Descript | 367p. online resource |
Mathematics Today -- One -- MathematicsโOur Invisible Culture -- Two -- Number Theory -- Groups and Symmetry -- The Geometry of the Universe -- The Mathematics of Meteorology -- The Four Color Problem -- Three -- Combinatorial Scheduling Theory -- Statistical Analysis of Experimental Data -- What is a Computation? -- Mathematics as a Tool for Economic Understanding -- Mathematical Aspects of Population Biology -- Four -- The Relevance of Mathematics -- About the Authors -- Further Reading