I. M. Gel'fand, E.G. Glagoleva, and A.A. Kirilov,
Birkh..ser B..ton | 1990 | ISBN: 0817635335 | 84 pages | PDF | 2,6 MB
The need for improved mathematics education at the high school and
college levels has never been more apparent than in the 1990's. As early
as the 1960's, I.M. Gelfand and his colleagues in the USSR thought hard
about this same question and developed a style for presenting basic
mathematics in a clear and simple form that engaged the curiosity and
intellectual interest of thousands of high school and college students.
These same ideas, this development, are available in the following books
to any student who is willing to read, to be stimulated, and to learn.
"The Method of Coordinates" is a way of transferring geometric images
into formulas, a method for describing pictures by numbers and letters
denoting constants and variables. It is fundamental to the study of
calculus and other mathematical topics. Teachers of mathematics will
find here a fresh understanding of the subject and a valuable path to
the training of students in mathematical concepts and skills.
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