Geometry: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

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This second edition of the popular math teaching resource book Math Stories for Problem Solving Success offers updated true-to-life situations designed to motivate teenagers to use math skills for solving everyday problems. But for someone who is not very familiar with mathematics, it won't make any sense, for such a person this book can be hard, confusing and boring. Finally, the author talks about the importance of estimates and approximation and their importance in different fields like A Prime Number theory, Theoretical computer science and several others.

wether one thinks of it as a rigid and dry subject or have the other opinion about the subject, it doesn't really matter since it works. plus the 2 most basic ideas of the book, that the meaning of a mathematical object is the rules it obeys and how it is related to other objects and how to extend familiar ideas to unfamiliar territory.

As the name suggests the book tries to tell a non-mathematician but interested person, what is Math about, what is it's goals, how mathematicians think and some techniques and results of modern and classical Math. Kupio sam je i pročitao iz razloga što sam profesor matematike i uvek tragam za ovakvom literaturom u nadi da ću otkriti neke nove načine kako se matematika može učiniti zanimljivija učenicima. Timothy Gavors, one of the world's leading mathematicians, seeks to shed light on the differences between advanced mathematics and the mathematics we teach in school. Starting from the basics, Maciej Dunajski proceeds from concrete examples (of mathematical objects like Platonic solids, or theorems like the Pythagorean theorem) to general principles.

especially in the 3rd part which is titled "Proofs", part 5 with dimensions and part 6 with Geometry. the book is more a descriptive approach for the technical side of mathematics and since it's written by a mathematician, you can sense their handprint on the subject matter, it may seem complex and dry on the surface but when you keep on going it introduces topics which might surprise you in lots of ways. Timothy Gowers, who is himself an award-winning mathematician, has written a book that is easy to understand and is very, very sympathetic to those of us who can't calculate. Mathematics : A Very Short Introduction (2002) by Timothy Gowers is a good introduction to what Mathematicians actually do and what modern mathematics is really about. Has the potential to change how we look at Mathematics, or at least us non-mathematicians, especially in regard to the use of the abstract method and fundamental concepts such as: "A mathematical object is what it does.Iako je autor sve to fino objašnjavao, opet mislim da treba da postoji neka podloga znanja za lakše razumevanje svih ovih stvari koje on spominje. Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. The study of geometry is at least 2500 years old, and it is within this field that the concept of mathematical proof - deductive reasoning from a set of axioms - first arose.

But when he goes little deeper like the concepts of hyperbolic geometry, I found the explanation little hard to comprehend. Maciej Dunajski is a Fellow of Clare College and a Professor of Mathematical Physics at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. It takes readers from Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries, to curved spaces, and the geometry of space-time inside a black hole, and outlines the role geometry plays in the broader context of science and art. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.Maciej Dunajski, Professor of Mathematical Physics, University of Cambridge Maciej Dunajski is a Fellow of Clare College http: //www. Very Short Introductions : Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. I started this book nearly four days ago, through weekend with dozen amount of coffee and panic attacks (which I usually get. The study of geometry is at least 2500 years old, and it is within this field that the concept of mathematical proof--deductive reasoning from a set of axioms--first arose. I would say that the best audience of the book is a beginning undergrad in a stem program, a motivated and mature high school students with a keen interest on maths or a layman with some maturity of mathematical concepts.

all this being said, this book is great for someone who has had mathematics in high school and knows what's what. Many of the examples used to introduce to the reader to mathematical thinking are explained more clearly (and in a more engaging fashion) in Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh. Some of the later chapters are not as good but are still clear and give more idea of what math is rally about. Maciej Dunajski is a Fellow of Clare College , and a Professor of Mathematical Physics at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. while reading the 6th part I remembered of the phrase that was engraved on the door of plato's academy which goes like this: "LET NO ONE IGNORANT OF GEOMETRY ENTER HERE", I wonder how many people were rejected.Strangely, I think this book must be more interesting to people who don't like mathematics, but those are the ones less likely to read it.