Loving + hating mathematics : challenging the myths of mathematical life /
Hersh, Reuben, 1927-
Loving + hating mathematics : challenging the myths of mathematical life / Loving and hating mathematics Reuben Hersh and Vera John-Steiner. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2011. - x, 416 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Mathematical beginnings -- Mathematical culture -- Mathematics as solace -- Mathematics as an addiction : following logic to the end -- Friendships and partnerships -- Mathematical communities -- Gender and age in mathematics -- The teaching of mathematics : fierce or friendly? -- Loving and hating school mathematics.
9780691142470 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0691142475 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2010014452
GBB098714 bnb
015629969 Uk
Mathematicians--Biography.
Mathematicians--Psychology.
Mathematics--Study and teaching--United States.
QA28 / .H48 2011
510.92 B
Loving + hating mathematics : challenging the myths of mathematical life / Loving and hating mathematics Reuben Hersh and Vera John-Steiner. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2011. - x, 416 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Mathematical beginnings -- Mathematical culture -- Mathematics as solace -- Mathematics as an addiction : following logic to the end -- Friendships and partnerships -- Mathematical communities -- Gender and age in mathematics -- The teaching of mathematics : fierce or friendly? -- Loving and hating school mathematics.
9780691142470 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0691142475 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2010014452
GBB098714 bnb
015629969 Uk
Mathematicians--Biography.
Mathematicians--Psychology.
Mathematics--Study and teaching--United States.
QA28 / .H48 2011
510.92 B