| Description |
xiii, 641 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Reprint. Originally published: Mathematics for liberal arts. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, c1967. (Addison-Wesley series in introductory mathematics) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
| Contents |
Why mathematics? -- A historical orientation -- Logic and mathematics -- Number: the fundamental concept -- Algebra, the higher arithmetic -- The nature and uses of Euclidean geometry -- Charting the earth and the heavens -- The mathematical order of nature -- The awakening of Europe -- Mathematics and painting in the Renaissance -- Projective geometry -- Coordinate geometry -- The simplest formulas in action -- Parametric equations and curvilinear motion -- The application of formulas to gravitation -- The differential calculus -- The integral calculus -- Trigonometric functions and oscillatory motion -- The trigonometric analysis of musical sounds -- Non-Euclidean geometries and their significance -- Arithmetics and their algebras -- The statistical approach to the social and biological sciences -- The theory of probability -- The nature and values of mathematics. |
| Subject |
Mathematics.
|
| Added Title |
Mathematics for liberal arts
|
| ISBN |
0486248232 paperback $10.95 |
|
