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What is Mathematics?

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What is Mathematics?

Summary

What is Mathematics? is a version, edition or translation[1].

Key Facts

  • What is Mathematics? authored Richard Courant[2].
  • What is Mathematics? authored Herbert Robbins[3].
  • What is Mathematics?'s instance of is recorded as version, edition or translation[4].
  • What is Mathematics?'s edition number is recorded as 1[5].
  • What is Mathematics?'s language of work or name is recorded as English[6].
  • What is Mathematics? was released on 1941[7].
  • What is Mathematics?'s edition or translation of is recorded as What Is Mathematics?[8].
  • What is Mathematics?'s title is recorded as What is Mathematics?[9].
  • What is Mathematics?'s subtitle is recorded as An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods[10].

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Authorship and Creation

Authored works include Richard Courant[2], a mathematician[11], 1888–1972[12], of Germany[13], awarded the Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany[14], specialised in mathematical analysis[15] and Herbert Robbins[3], a mathematician[16], 1915–2001[17], of United States[18], awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship[19], specialised in probability theory[20].

Publication

What is Mathematics? was published on 1941[7]. What is Mathematics?'s language of work or name is recorded as English[6].

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  10. [20] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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