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Published by Oxford University Press, 1979, softcover, illustrated, index, 521 pages, condition: new.
The legacy of one of the world's leading mathematicians and mathematical writers, What is Mathematics? has long been valued as a classic survey of the whole field of math. What is Mathematics? is now available for the first time in a paperback edition.
Praise for the Original Edition:
A lucid representation of the fundamental concepts and methods of the whole field of mathematics. It is an easily understandable introduction for the layman and helps to give the mathematical student a general view of the basic principles and methods.
Albert Einstein
Without doubt, the work will have great influence. It should be in the hands of everyone, professional and otherwise, who is interested in scientific thinking
The New York Times
This is not a book in philosophy; but there are probably few philosophers can not gain instruction and clarification from it. It succeeds brilliantly in conveying the intellectual excitement of mathematical inquiry and in communicating the essential ideas and methods.
Journal of Philosophy
It is a work of high perfection, whether judged by aesthetic, pedagogical or scientific standards. It is astonishing to what extent What is Mathematics? has succeeded in making clear by means of the simplest examples all the fundamental ideas and methods which we mathematicians consider the life blood of our science.
Herman Weyl
