Creative Mathematics
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USDProfessor H. S. Wall (1902–1971) developed Creative Mathematics over a period of many years of working with students at the University of Texas, Austin. His aim was to lead students to develop their mathematical abilities, to help them learn the art of mathematics, and to teach them to create mathematical ideas. This book, according to Wall, 'is not a compendium of mathematical facts and inventions to be read over as a connoisseur of art looks over paintings. It is, instead, a sketchbook in which readers try their hands at mathematical discovery.' In less than two hundred pages, he takes the reader on a stimulating tour starting with numbers, and then moving on to simple graphs, the integral, simple surfaces, successive approximations, linear spaces of simple graphs, and concluding with mechanical systems. The book is self contained, and assumes little formal mathematical background on the part of the reader.
- Developed for undergraduate students over a period of many years of teaching the subject
- Increases the student reader's confidence in creating mathematical ideas
- Requires little formal background in mathematics
Product details
March 2009Hardback
9780883857502
218 pages
236 × 155 × 15 mm
0.42kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Numbers
- 2. Ordered number pairs
- 3. Slope
- 4. Combinations of simple graphs
- 5. Theorems about simple graphs
- 6. The simple graphs of trigonometry
- 7. The integral
- 8. Computation formulas obtained by means of the integral
- 9. Simple graphs made to order
- 10. More about integrals
- 11. Simple surfaces
- 12. Successive approximations
- 13. Linear spaces of simple graphs
- 14. More about linear spaces
- 15. Mechanical systems
- Integral Tables
- Index of simple graphs
- Glossary of definitions.
