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What Is Mathematics? is a mathematics book written by Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins, published in England by Oxford University Press. It is an introduction to mathematics, intended both for the mathematics student and for the general public. First published in 1941, it discusses number theory, geometry, topology and calculus.
In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, Oxford was joint first (with the University of Cambridge) for applied mathematics [21] and third for pure mathematics. [22] In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework , the institute submitted jointly with the Department of Statistics, getting the highest placement for mathematical sciences in the UK. [ 23 ]
The School Mathematics Project arose in the United Kingdom as part of the new mathematics educational movement of the 1960s. [1] It is a developer of mathematics textbooks for secondary schools , formerly based in Southampton in the UK.
The Radcliffe Science Library (RSL) is the main teaching and research science library at the University of Oxford in Oxford, England.Being officially part of the Bodleian Libraries, the library holds the Legal Deposit material for the sciences and is thus entitled to receive a copy of all British scientific publications.
Anne Watson FIMA is a British mathematics educator. She is a professor emeritus in the department of education at the University of Oxford, where she was a fellow of Linacre College, Oxford. She is a Fellow of the International Society for Design and Development in Education and of the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications. [1]
The Oxford University Invariant Society, or 'The Invariants', is a university society open to members of the University of Oxford, dedicated to promotion of interest in mathematics. [1] The society regularly hosts talks from professional mathematicians on topics both technical and more popular, from the mathematics of juggling to the history of ...
The books in this series, like the other Springer-Verlag mathematics series, are small yellow books of a standard size. The books in this series tend to be written at a more elementary level than the similar Graduate Texts in Mathematics series, although there is a fair amount of overlap between the two series in terms of material covered and ...
Graph Theory, 1736–1936 is a book in the history of mathematics on graph theory.It focuses on the foundational documents of the field, beginning with the 1736 paper of Leonhard Euler on the Seven Bridges of Königsberg and ending with the first textbook on the subject, published in 1936 by Dénes Kőnig.