'Mathematics, taught and learned appropriately, improves the mind and implants good habits of thought.' This tenet underlies all of Professor Pólya's works on teaching and problem-solving. This book captures some of Pólya's excitement and vision. In it he provides enlightenment for all those who have ever wondered how the laws of nature were worked out mathematically. The distinctive feature of the present book is the stress on the history of certain elementary chapters of science; these can be a source of enjoyment and deeper understanding of mathematics even for beginners who have little, or perhaps no, knowledge of physics.
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This book captures some of Pólya's excitement and vision. Its distinctive feature is the stress on the history of certain elementary chapters of science; these can be a source of enjoyment and deeper understanding of mathematics even for beginners who have little, or perhaps no, knowledge of physics.
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George Poyla- received his doctor's degree in Budapest and taught at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich from 1914 to 1940, and at Stanford University from 1942 until his retirement in 1953.
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This review is from: Mathematical Methods in Science (MAA New Mathematical Library: Vol.26) (Anneli Lax New Mathematical Library) (Paperback)
This book describes plausible arguments for different laws of physics, like how levers work. There is the right amount of causual prose, mathematics, history, and cleverness blended together. I was able to think of fluid dynamics with his style of approaching things. The principle of insufficient reason he describes led me to develop my own test to see whether cars on the other side of the road were going faster or slower than me, which is practicle for when you don't know the speed limit.
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what the generic method is for,
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This review is from: Mathematical Methods in Science (MAA New Mathematical Library: Vol.26) (Anneli Lax New Mathematical Library) (Paperback)
If you read Toeplitz's generic method and found it insufficient, this is the book that makes you happy.
People thinks Math helps Science but Polya shows the opposite is also true. Nowadays, almost everybody tells about the generic method and Toeplitz but I found Polya is much better than Toeplitz. Don't talk about generic method in math education without this book.
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