Kyle Harrison
to-read
What is Mathematics?
- Author
- Richard Courant
- Published
- 1941
- Pages
- 521
- Recommended
- Once
What is Mathematics?
Why it’s on the list: Richard Courant’s classic introduction to mathematical ideas and methods — the book the list recommends as the way into mathematics.
Where I heard about it
- David Perell — shared the septivium list of best introductory books, where I flagged this as one of the “most interesting” names, April 2020.
Connections
- David Perell — shared the list: Hidden gem alert! Here’s a… (tweet) (saved verbatim), pointing at the septivium source http://www.septivium.com/b/2009/05/07/mefi/.
- Saved on April 17th, 2020.