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The mathematical experience

Author: Philip J Davis; Reuben Hersh; Elena Marchisotto
Publisher: Boston : Birkhäuser, 1995.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : Study edView all editions and formats
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Presents general information about meteorology, weather, and climate and includes more than thirty activities to help study these topics, including making a cloud, generating lightning, and showing what happens when warm and cold fronts collide.
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Davis, Philip J., 1923-
Mathematical experience.
Boston : Birkhäuser, 1995
(OCoLC)812613037
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Philip J Davis; Reuben Hersh; Elena Marchisotto
ISBN: 0817637397 9780817637392 3764337397 9783764337391
OCLC Number: 32704965
Description: xxi, 487 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Overture --
Mathematical landscape --
Varieties of mathematical experience --
Outer issues --
Inner issues --
Selected topics in mathematics --
Teaching and learning --
From Certainty to fallibility --
Mathematical reality --
Glossary --
Bibliography --
Index.
Other Titles: The mathematical experience /
Responsibility: Philip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh, Elena Anne Marchisotto ; with an introduction by Gian-Carlo Rota.
Local System Bib Number:
109465

Abstract:

Presents general information about meteorology, weather, and climate and includes more than thirty activities to help study these topics, including making a cloud, generating lightning, and showing what happens when warm and cold fronts collide.
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