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  title info:
    title: Mathematical Reflections
    sub title: In a Room with Many Mirrors
  name:
    name part: Hilton, Peter.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Holton, Derek.
  name:
    name part: Pedersen, Jean.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 1997
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 352 pages)
  abstract: The purpose of this book is to show what mathematics is about, how it is done, and what it is good for. The relaxed and informal presentation conveys the joy of mathematical discovery and insight and makes it clear that mathematics can be an exciting and engrossing activity. Frequent questions lead the reader to see mathematics as an accessible world of thought, where understanding can turn opaque formulae into beautiful and meaningful ideas. The text presents eight topics that serve to illustrate the unity of mathematical thought as well as the diversity of mathematical ideas. Drawn from both "pure" and "applied" mathematics, they include: spirals in nature and in mathematics; the modern topic of fractals and the ancient topic of Fibonacci numbers; Pascal's Triangle and paper folding -- two topics where geometry, number theory, and algebra meet and interact; modular arithmetic and the arithmetic of the infinite. The final chapter presents some ideas about how mathematics should be done, and hence, how it should be taught; these ideas are referred to throughout the text, whenever mathematical strategy and technique are at issue. Presenting many recent discoveries that lead to interesting open questions, the book can serve as the main text in courses dealing with contemporary mathematical topics (for mathematics students or for prospective or in-service mathematics teachers) or as enrichment for other courses. It can also be read with pleasure on its own by anyone interested in the intellectually intriguing aspects of mathematics.
  note: by Peter Hilton, Derek Holton, Jean Pedersen.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  classification: QA1-939
  classification: 510
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Undergraduate texts in mathematics
  identifier: 9781461219323 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 1461219329 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9781461273455
  identifier: 1461273455
  identifier: 1461219329
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: AU@
    record creation date: 121227
    record change date: 20260422220945.9
    record identifier: in00003564691
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng