Bøker av Philip J. Davis

One of the principles of mathematical growth is that the relabelling process often suggests a new generation of problems. Means become ends; the medium rapidly becomes the message. This book is not wholly self-contained. Readers will find that they should be familiar with the elementary portions of linear algebra and of the theory of functions of a complex variable.

" Although there is a connection between the first piece and the second, the four pieces here are essentially independent. This piece purports, as a secondary goal, to present a solution to a certain unsolved historical problem raised in the first piece.