Book:David Wells/You Are a Mathematician
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David Wells: You Are a Mathematician
Published $\text {1995}$, Penguin
- ISBN 0-14-017480-X
Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- $\ \ 1 \quad$ The hidden world of triangles
- $\ \ 2 \quad$ Numbers and patterns
- $\ \ 3 \quad$ Mathematics as science
- $\ \ 4 \quad$ The games of mathematics
- $\ \ 5 \quad$ Creating new mathematical games
- $\ \ 6 \quad$ Perception and imagination
- $\ \ 7 \quad$ Likeness and analogy
- $\ \ 8 \quad$ Certainty, proof and illumination
- $\ \ 9 \quad$ Mathematics in science: searching for the truth
- $10 \quad$ Mathematics in science: approximate models
- $11 \quad$ The enjoyment of mathematics
- $12 \quad$ A miniature world and a long journey
- $13 \quad$ A mathematical adventure
- $14 \quad$ Index