Mathematical Analysis: Functions of One Variable - Couverture souple

Giaquinta, Mariano; Modica, Giuseppe

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1461265703 ISBN 13 : 9781461265702

Editeur : Birkhäuser, 2012

Synopsis

For more than two thousand years some familiarity with mathematics has been regarded as an indispensable part of the intellectual equipment of every cultured person. Today the traditional place of mathematics in education is in grave danger. Unfortunately, professional representatives of mathematics share in the reponsibiIity. The teaching of mathematics has sometimes degen­ erated into empty drill in problem solving, which may develop formal ability but does not lead to real understanding or to greater intellectual indepen­ dence. Mathematical research has shown a tendency toward overspecialization and over-emphasis on abstraction. Applications and connections with other fields have been neglected . . . But . . . understanding of mathematics cannot be transmitted by painless entertainment any more than education in music can be brought by the most brilliant journalism to those who never have lis­ tened intensively. Actual contact with the content of living mathematics is necessary. Nevertheless technicalities and detours should be avoided, and the presentation of mathematics should be just as free from emphasis on routine as from forbidding dogmatism which refuses to disclose motive or goal and which is an unfair obstacle to honest effort. (From the preface to the first edition of What is Mathematics? by Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins, 1941.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This superb and self-contained work is an introductory presentation of basic ideas, structures, and results of differential and integral calculus for functions of several variables. The wide range of topics covered include the differential calculus of several variables, including that of Banach spaces.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Birkhäuser
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1461265703
• ISBN 13: 9781461265702
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
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