The first few chapters are very strong, Gowers describes that mental models are, goes on to describing numbers, graphs and abstractions and then goes on to proofs. Maciej Dunajski is a Fellow of Clare College, and a Professor of Mathematical Physics at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge.

The amount of equations is minimal, but still some maturity is required to fully appreciate the contents.I would say that the best audience of the book is a beginning undergrad in a stem program, a motivated and mature high school students with a keen interest on maths or a layman with some maturity of mathematical concepts. Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable. Iako je autor sve to fino objašnjavao, opet mislim da treba da postoji neka podloga znanja za lakše razumevanje svih ovih stvari koje on spominje. this book is great if you want a guide through the mysterious and beautiful path of numbers but for me, it still didn't do justice to mathematics, the way that Roger Penrose does to mathematica.

uk/Home/, and a Professor of Mathematical Physics at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. Biography: Maciej Dunajski is a Fellow of Clare College , and a Professor of Mathematical Physics at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. people tend to ignore the relationship between math and music (which leads to sound, which leads to the meter in poetry), math and language (linguistics, which structures our LLM and potentially AGI), and math and philosophy (multi-dimensional space - phenomenology, architecture, technology - , symbolic logic - public policy, and so on). Mathematics : A Very Short Introduction (2002) by Timothy Gowers is a good introduction to what Mathematicians actually do and what modern mathematics is really about. Some of the later chapters are not as good but are still clear and give more idea of what math is rally about.

Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. For my whole life, I have been HORRIBLE at math (or, at least since the 3rd grade, when fractions were introduced to my life). Tbh, it might be a pretty hard book for beginners, at least harder than other pop science math books, but it's food for thought. Neki ce možda biti razočarani jer nije detaljna, a neki što je prenapredna, ali meni se svidjela prvenstveno jer je prepuna činjenica koje do sada nisam čula ili shvatila na način objašnjen u knjizi.

Maciej Dunajski is a Fellow of Clare College and a Professor of Mathematical Physics at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge.

This Very Short Introduction covers the areas of mathematics falling under geometry, starting with topics such as Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries, and ranging to curved spaces, projective geometry in Renaissance art, and geometry of space-time inside a black hole. This book provides a fresh modern introduction to geometry, an ancient branch of mathematics with important applications. But for someone who is not very familiar with mathematics, it won't make any sense, for such a person this book can be hard, confusing and boring. This is a popular science book about geometry published by the OUP, and aiming at a level well bellow that of any subscriber to the hyperspace. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data.