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What Is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods, 2nd ed., Richard Courant, Herbert Robbins, and lan Stewart, 1996. 566 pp., $18.95 paper. ISBN 0-19510519-2. Oxford University Press, 2001 Evans Rd., Cary, NC 27513, (800) 451-7556.
This revised edition of the 1941 text remains a treasured gem that should be mined by mathematicians, teachers, students, and anyone interested in meaningful mathematics. The revision adds extensions and commentary to several of the chapters, including a chapter titled "Recent Developments." That chapter addresses such well-known topics as the Goldbach conjecture and...