This week we’re giving away a hardcover copy of Elements of Mathematics: From Euclid to Gödel. To enter Math Blog’s August giveaway, please follow the instructions below.
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Elements of Mathematics: From Euclid to Gödel by John Stillwell is a great dim sum, so to speak, of various mathematical areas. The topics covered are “elementary” and the clear explanations, as per the author’s admission, don’t assume mathematical knowledge beyond a high school level.
Presented this way, the book would appear to be quite basic. In reality, I would expect most undergraduate students to be challenged at times while reading it.
I’ll go further and say that despite being an extremely approachable book, I’m willing to wager that even most mathematicians would walk away from this book with some new insight on these “elementary” topics.
The discussion around what makes a mathematical concept elementary or advanced (through the filter of infinity, abstraction, and proof) alone is worth the price of admission.
For the record, the book is divided into 10 chapters: a brief introduction to 8 areas of math, followed by 8 chapters each of which explores one of them, and wraps up with an advanced mathematics chapter.
- Elementary Topics
- Arithmetic
- Computation
- Algebra
- Geometry
- Calculus
- Combinatorics
- Probability
- Logic
- Some Advanced Mathematics
Each chapter concludes with a few pages of historical and philosophical remarks. Really good stuff.
I enjoyed this book and I’m excited to giveaway a copy to one lucky reader. See below for details on how to enter the giveaway.
GIVEAWAY DETAILS
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Best of luck!
The Leonhard Euler biography and “L.A. Math” both look very interesting.
Across the Board:
The Mathematics of Chessboard Problems
Thank you for this activity! I think <> would be a good one for next !
I would be very appreciate if I won the book. I am a high school student and would like to be a professor. I know advanced calculus and learning elementary number theory and proof theory. I can’t decide what area to pursue and this book would really make my decision more clear and informed. Thank you!
The Golden Ticket. People know too little about this central problem!
Count Like an Egyptian. Love that book!
The other books that delve into math history also look interesting. Heck, they ALL look interesting…
I want to read more about codes! They have always fascinated me!
Numerical Algorithms for Personalized Search in Self-organizing Information Networks
Maths for advanced SEO and reputation management cool.
Einstein and the Quantum:
The Quest of the Valiant Swabian
A. Douglas Stone
Summing It Up:
From One Plus One to Modern Number Theory
Avner Ash & Robert Gross
love this book about number theory
I agree with Shubham Sharma. I love number theory!
Summing It Up:
From One Plus One to Modern Number Theory
Avner Ash & Robert Gross
The Joy of Set!
I love this game and will probably buy this book now that I know it exists!
Three Views of Logic:
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