Timeline for Are there other nice math books close to the style of Tristan Needham?
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| Jul 15, 2010 at 19:35 | comment | added | The Mathemagician | @Davidac897 Both,ideally.A student struggling with a more rigorous presentation-such as Alfhors or Narisham-will benefit tremendously from the geometric and historical presentation of the basics and drawing connections between them. A student who has mastered a rigorous presentation will gain much deeper insight into what the abstract construction "means". | |
| Jul 15, 2010 at 14:38 | answer | added | Hans Lundmark | timeline score: 13 | |
| Jul 15, 2010 at 10:36 | comment | added | David Corwin | @Andrew L: Does that mean that Needham's text is useful for the student who has not yet understood the rigorous formalism of complex analysis and wants to understand it? Or should a student who already understands complex analysis reasonable well still read Needham's book? | |
| Jul 15, 2010 at 9:52 | answer | added | David Corwin | timeline score: 9 | |
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| Jul 14, 2010 at 22:32 | comment | added | The Mathemagician | @danseetea The similarity between the texts of Stillwell and Needham's masterwork is indeed striking and is not an accident:Professor Stillwell is acknowledged in the introduction to Needham's book as a strong influence on the style of the text. We can all learn a great deal from Professor Stillwell's texts,emphasizing the historical development of the great edifice of mathematics. | |
| Jul 14, 2010 at 21:10 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Marco Disce | ||
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| Jul 14, 2010 at 19:51 | answer | added | GM Hurley | timeline score: 28 | |
| Jul 14, 2010 at 19:22 | comment | added | danseetea | On one hand I want to +1 because that's indeed a great book. On the other hand I should probably -1 because it's a bad question (well, at least as long as it's phrased the way it is and since it's not community-wiki). So I'll do neither for now. I'll just leave this comment: while many books come to mind, one particular author who has a style similar to that of Needham's (that is, his books are full of intuition and historical insight) is John Stillwell. I'm not going to recommend a particular book because most of them are great (I say 'most' and not 'all' because I haven't read them all). | |
| Jul 14, 2010 at 19:11 | comment | added | The Mathemagician | You SHOULD be impressed,Marco. It's a truly remarkable book that should be read by anyone seriously interested in analysis or physics,particularly for it's historical insight. | |
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| Jul 14, 2010 at 18:02 | history | asked | Marco Disce | CC BY-SA 2.5 |