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Genre/Form: | Enciclopedias y diccionarios Libros electrónicos |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Eric W Weisstein |
ISBN: | 9781584883470 1584883472 0849319463 9780849319464 |
OCLC Number: | 628203602 |
Description: | 3242 p. : il. ; 29 cm |
Contents: | Alphabetic listing of encyclopedic articles. |
Other Titles: | MATHnetBASE. |
Responsibility: | Eric W. Weisstein. |
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Praise for the first edition:"This extraordinary volume beautifully captures many of the discoveries in mathematics in a readable and authoritative fashion...What is truly exceptional is that this encyclopedia is the product of a single dedicated and talented author...This book is an excellent resource for both teaching and research libraries..."-Journal of Mathematical Psychology"I cannot praise the work too highly: Its vast scope and readability make the encyclopedia a great success."- Robert Dickau"Impressive...I found it very interesting and spent time reading about a variety of topics for which I had very little background or knowledge...A valuable source of information..."- W.E. Schiesser, Lehigh University"Users will actually look forward to picking it up... one of the more important tools that will help college students actually grasp important mathematical concepts, written in such a way as to invite students to return to it time and again to discover that they really can understand mathematics and apply its concepts to derive solutions to practical problems." Read more...

