Mathematics Tomorrow

Lynn A. Steen


Springer | 1981 | 244 páginas | pdf |6,9 Mb

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Contents
Introduction ... 1
What Is Mathematics?
Applied Mathematics Is Bad Mathematics
Paul R. Halmos ... 9
Solving Equations Is Not Solving Problems
Jerome Spanier... 21
The Unexpected Art of Mathematics
Jerry P. King .. 29
Redefining the Mathematics Major
Alan Tucker ... 39
Purity in Applications
Tim Poston .... 49
Growth and New Intuitions: Can We Meet the Challenge?
William F. Lucas ... 55
Teaching and Learning Mathematics
A voiding Math Avoidance
Peter J. Hilton. . 73
Learning Mathematics
Anneli Lax and Giuliana Groat 83
Teaching Mathematics
Abe Shenitzer .... 95
Read the Masters!
Harold M. Edwards .... 105
Mathematics as Propaganda
Neal Koblitz .. 111
Mathematicians Love Books
Walter Kaufmann-Buhler, Alice Peters, and Klaus Peters .. 121
A Faculty in Limbo
Donald J. Albers
Junior's All Grown Up Now
George M. Miller..... 135
NSF Support for Mathematics Education
E. P. Miles. Jr... 139
Issues of Equality
The Real Energy Crisis
Eileen L. Poiani ... 155
Women and Mathematics
Alice T. Schafer .... 165
Spatial Separation in Family Life: A Mathematician's Choice
Marian Boykan Pour-EI .... 187
Mathematics for Tomorrow
Applications of Undergraduate Mathematics
Ross L. Finney ... 197
The Decline of Calculus-The Rise of Discrete Mathematics
Anthony Ralston .. 213
Mathematical Software: How to Sell Mathematics
Paul T. Boggs.. 221
Physics and Mathematics
Hartley Rogers. Jr.
Readin', 'Ritin', and Statistics
Tim Robertson and Robert V. Hogg
Mathematization in the Sciences
Maynard Thompson ... 243