Edition |
Study ed. |
Description |
xxi, 487 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-480) and index. |
Contents |
Overture -- Mathematical landscape -- Varieties of mathematical experience -- Outer issues -- Inner issues -- Selected topics in mathematics -- Teaching and learning -- From Certainty to fallibility -- Mathematical reality -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index. |
Summary |
Presents general information about meteorology, weather, and climate and includes more than thirty activities to help study these topics, including making a cloud, generating lightning, and showing what happens when warm and cold fronts collide. |
Subject |
Mathematics -- Philosophy.
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Mathematics -- History.
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Mathematics -- Study and teaching.
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Added Author |
Hersh, Reuben, 1927-2020
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Marchisotto, Elena.
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Other Form: |
Online version: Davis, Philip J., 1923- Mathematical experience. Study ed. Boston : Birkhäuser, 1995 (OCoLC)812613037 |
ISBN |
0817637397 (h : acid-free paper) |
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9780817637392 (h : acid-free paper) |
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3764337397 (h : acid-free paper) |
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9783764337391 (h : acid-free paper) |
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