Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning

1120 pages | 1999 | PDF | 9,5 Mb This is a huge brick of a book. As other reviewers have pointed out, it is comprised of three volumes on pretty much all undergraduate math, bound into one. Other reviewers have correctly pointed out that the material is exhaustive, and although one or two chapters are a bit dated, reading this work and studying it carefully is a very rewarding endeavour. I am a social scientist, and studying this book in depth has made me conversational in pretty much all the math an engineer would be expected to know at the end of his undergraduate studies. This is to stress that although this book is accessible to the motivated amateur, the knowledge you can gain from it with dilligent study carries quite a bit of weight. Although I think the content of a book is more important than its physical composition, I would like to point a few things out because they have not been mentioned by other reviewers and may be useful if you are considering buying this edition, or the separate three volumes. Like I said, it's quite a tome, and not something you can easily carry around in a backpack on a day to day basis. In this sense, or if you are only interested in particular topics, you are better off buying one or all of the separate three volumes. However, note that this edition has an index which covers ALL three volumes, which makes looking things up and using this book as a reference text very useful. I know keep this book handy, precisely to use as a reference texte. The index makes it easy to find what I am looking for, and the treatment of the topic always strikes a nice balance between being accessible and yet in enough depth to have practical value. Links (9,5 Mb) Quote:http://rapidshare.com/files/141068866/Mathematics_Its_Content__Methods_and_Meaning_www.softarchive.net.rar Bonus: Quote:http://rapidshare.com/files/140555056/History_of_Functional_Analysis__North-Holland_Mathematics_Studies__www.softarchive.net.rar