The mathematical experience Gian-Carlo Rota, Philip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company

A review from Amazon: I was going to study history. The preceding dialogues are both from works of fiction. Given the complexity of brain dynamics and of our inner experience, we expect the mathematical constructs connecting neuroscience and mind to be far less simple than Newton's, Maxwell's, or Schrödinger's equations. Hofstadter is not inimical to mathematics as the lingua franca of science, which we think is detrimental to human thought, and a contrivance that is unreal, a concoction that gives scientists a mantle of authority that it doesn't really deserve. However naïve we may know it is, the Platonic myth of mathematics does capture an aspect of our experience — the resistance of mathematical ideas to being merely what we want them to be — which is almost uncommunicable to the uninitiated. But that's no reason to cut out lectures, which form the core of the university mathematics experience. Taylor and the atomic bomb is well established in the folklore of applied mathematics, and has become a staple of introductory courses on dimensional analysis. A teacher's answer determines how he teaches. Have you designed the user interface so that the user can experience the mathematical content in as simple and direct a way as possible? Math is bogus, and used by science to make . Like The Mathematical Experience ? Early in their lives children develop remarkable mathematical competence. 'The Mathematical Experience' is a book that should widen most people's perspective. Scholars have little understanding about how this occurs, but assume that it develops in the course of children's informal mathematical experiences. Join aNobii to see if your friends read it, and discover similar books! That being said, they may in fact truly represent how the majority of mathematicians experience their work. It postulates that failure to participate in independent learning experience in mathematics contributes to the development of gender differences in mathematics performance.