About this title: An introduction to mathematics which starts with simple arithmetic and algebra and proceeds through to graphs, logarithms, trigonometry to calculus and imaginary numbers.
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Description: Acceptable. Book has some water damage, but book is still completely readable. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Dust Cover Missing. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin
Date Published: 1967
Description: Good. Text contains some underlining/marking. Covers show light edge wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Free Delivery Confirmation! Ships same or next business day! read more
Description: [A121] 1952, later printing., later printing. (Mass market paperback) Fair to good. Textblock discolored and fragile but the book is otherwise intact and clean. (Mathematics) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Pelican Books
Date Published: 1957
Description: Good. Tanning. Corner bumped. Name marked out on cover and inside cover. Pages clean. "Designed to convince the general reader that mathematics is not a forbidding science but an attractive mental exercise. " read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Dover Pubns
Date Published: 2007-10-19
ISBN-13:9780486462400ISBN:0486462404
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780486462400. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780140130348ISBN:0140130349
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. like new: RTB617. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 240 p. Penguin Mathematics. Audience: General/trade. read more
"I don't have a lot to say about Mathematician's Delight other than this: If you or someone you know happen to be curious about math but have been afraid to explore it, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND Mathematician's Delight as a starting point! W.W. Sawyer KNOWS how to teach and demonstrates it throughout this thoughtful and helpful little book. Would that he could update it for 2008 and beyond..."
"W. W. Sawyer, Mathematician's Delight (Penguin, 1943)
I approached this with some trepidation, as when I picked it up recently, I discovered a makeshift bookmark (that had a date on it-- July of 1994) stuck at the beginning of chapter four. Had I started it and just forgotten, or had I given up thanks to the author's style?
The former, thankfully. While Sawyer may well have been a fine teacher-- and this book does present that side of him a number of times-- his prose is often dry as week-old bread. If you can get past the insomnia factor, however, his methods of explaining math were even able to help me (who failed calculus 101 twice) understand the uses of integrals and derivatives. Rather than trying to explain mathematics in a conventional manner, Sawyer attacks the problem for those of us who never grasped these things in class by taking what was then (and still is, to an extent) a revolutionary approach to explaining maths: tell the student what the problems will be used for, and offer concrete examples, BEFORE explaining the mechanics of the thing. It's beautiful. Too bad more math teachers haven't read it. They probably couldn't get past the prose. ***"
"this book is about realizing math (at least on the applied level) is a human language, from our experiences, and is used via abstraction. My friend and teacher Kareem told me to read to help me get back into thinking and using Math as a language, and to help me work out financial problems in grad school using math i may not yet understand."
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