Authors:I.M. Gelfand, E.G. Glagoleva, E.E. Shnol,
Publisher: Birkhäuser Bosto
Keywords: graphs, functions
Number of Pages: 106
Published: 1990-12-01
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0817635327
ISBN-13: 9780817635329

The need for improved mathematics education at the high school and college levels has never been more apparent than in the 1990’s. As early as the 1960’s, I.M. Gelfand and his colleagues in the USSR thought hard about this same question and developed a style for presenting basic mathematics in a clear and simple form that engaged the curiosity and intellectual interest of thousands of high school and college students. These same ideas, this development, are available in the following books to any student who is willing to read, to be stimulated, and to learn. "Functions and Graphs"

Authors:I. M. Gelfand, E. G. Glagoleva, A. A. Kirillov,
Publisher: Dover Publicatio
Keywords: coordinates, method
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2002-08-30
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0486425657
ISBN-13: 9780486425658

This introductory text explores the translation of geometric concepts into the language of numbers in order to define the position of a point in space (the orbit of a satellite, for example). The two-part treatment begins with discussions of the coordinates of points on a line, coordinates of points in a plane, and the coordinates of points in space. Part 2 examines geometry as an aid to calculation and the necessity and peculiarities of four-dimensional space. Written for systematic study, it features a helpful series of "road signs" in the margins, alerting students to passages requiring par

Authors:I.M. Gelfand, E.G. Glagoleva, A.A. Kirilov,
Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston
Keywords: coordinates, method
Number of Pages: 84
Published: 1990-01-01
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0817635335
ISBN-13: 9780817635336

The need for improved mathematics education at the high school and college levels has never been more apparent than in the 1990’s. As early as the 1960’s, I.M. Gelfand and his colleagues in the USSR thought hard about this same question and developed a style for presenting basic mathematics in a clear and simple form that engaged the curiosity and intellectual interest of thousands of high school and college students. These same ideas, this development, are available in the following books to any student who is willing to read, to be stimulated, and to learn. "The Method of Coord

Authors:I. M. Gelfand, E. G. Glagoleva, E. E. Shnol,
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: mathematics, books, dover, graphs, functions
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2002-10-16
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 0486425649
ISBN-13: 9780486425641

The second in a series of systematic studies by a celebrated mathematician I. M. Gelfand and colleagues, this volume presents students with a well-illustrated sequence of problems and exercises designed to illuminate the properties of functions and graphs. (See below for details of other books in this series.) Since readers do not have the benefit of a blackboard on which a teacher constructs a graph, the authors abandoned the customary use of diagrams in which only the final form of the graph appears; instead, the book’s margins feature step-by-step diagrams for the complete constructio