What Is Mathematics? —— An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods

----- 什么是数学？一种思想和方法的基本方法

ISBN: 9780195105193 出版年：1996 页码：100 Courant, Richard, the late Robbins, Herbert Stewart, Ian Oxford University Press

Written for beginners and scholars, for students and teachers, for philosophers and engineers, What is Mathematics?, Second Edition is a sparkling collection of mathematical gems that offers an entertaining and accessible portrait of the mathematical world. Covering everything from natural numbers and the number system to geometrical constructions and projective geometry, from topology and calculus to matters of principle and the Continuum Hypothesis, this fascinating survey allows readers to delve into mathematics as an organic whole rather than an empty drill in problem solving.