Creative mathematics

"Professor H.S. Wall wrote Creative Mathematics with the intention of leading students to develop their mathematical abilities, helping them learn the art of mathematics, and teaching them to create mathematical ideas. Creative Mathematics, according to Wall, "is not a compendium of mathem...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wall, H. S. (Hubert Stanley), 1902-1971
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Mathematical Association of America, 2009.
Edition:Rev. ed.
Series:Classroom resource materials (Unnumbered)
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Short biography of H.S. Wall
  • Numbers
  • Ordered number pairs
  • Slope
  • Combinations of simple graphs
  • Theorems about simple graphs
  • The simple graphs of trigonometry
  • The integral
  • Computation formulas obtained by means of the integral
  • Simple graphs made to order
  • More about integrals
  • Simple surfaces
  • Successive approximations
  • Linear spaces of simple graphs
  • More about linear spaces
  • Mechanical systems
  • Integral tables
  • Index of simple graphs
  • Glossary of definitions.