from Stanford Univ Pr (August 1, 2000)
9780804736831 |
details & prices | 170 pages | 5.75 × 8.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.85 lbs | List price $50.00
About: Two features of mathematics stand out: its menagerie of seemingly eternal objects (numbers, spaces, patterns, functions, categories, morphisms, graphs, and so on), and the hieroglyphics of special notations, signs, symbols, and diagrams associated with them.