Mathematics Tomorrow
Mathematics today is approaching a state of cnSIS. As the demands of science and society for mathematical literacy increase, the percentage of American college students intending to major in mathematics plummets and achievement scores of entering college students continue thelt unremit ting decline...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer New York
1981, 1981
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1981 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- What Is Mathematics?
- Applied Mathematics Is Bad Mathematics
- Solving Equations Is Not Solving Problems
- The Unexpected Art of Mathematics
- Redefining the Mathematics Major
- Purity in Applications
- Growth and New Intuitions: Can We Meet the Challenge?
- Teaching and Learning Mathematics
- Avoiding Math Avoidance
- Learning Mathematics
- Teaching Mathematics
- Read the Masters!
- Mathematics as Propaganda
- Mathematicians Love Books
- A Faculty in Limbo
- Junior’s All Grown Up Now
- NSF Support for Mathematics Education
- Issues of Equality
- The Real Energy Crisis
- Women and Mathematics
- Spatial Separation in Family Life: A Mathematician’s Choice
- Mathematics for Tomorrow
- Applications of Undergraduate Mathematics
- The Decline of Calculus—The Rise of Discrete Mathematics
- Mathematical Software: How to Sell Mathematics
- Physics and Mathematics
- Readin’, ‘Ritin’, and Statistics
- Mathematization in the Sciences