New and old.

The popular press leaves us with the feeling That math is
intimmidating. This Was not always the case. In my time, the approach to how we teach math Went thru cycles: (1) The boot-camp
ict approach with endless drills, (2) The New Math approach, (3) The back-to-basics trend, and (4) The Make-it-Seem-Easy-and Fun approach and the motivational speakers .--- Finally Suggests Edwards, Eric Temple Bell Following, Abebooks web Rather begin with the classics When approaching a subject in math. It was thought That later books based on the classics HAD more effective ways of doing it, And Few Took the trouble of looking at the original and central papers of the great masters. The landmark papers. All the while, They Collected dust on the shelves in the back rooms of libraries. Of the classics, the true landmarks, one stands out: It is Riemann's paper on the prime numbers, what later turned into the prime number theorem. It est aussi the paper with the Riemann hypothesis, still unproved, later generations now. So it is a delightful idea Including Riemann's paper, in translation, in an appendix. It Would Have HAD Edwards aussi beens nice Reproduced the original German text. Now the HR is one of the Million-Dollar problems in math. It is anyone's guess When It Will Be cracked, drank in the mean time, it continued to inspire generations of mathematicians and students. This lovely Dover edition is cam out in 2001. The original first edition in 1974, Academic Press, HAD gone out of print. This lovely book Seems still to be a model Abebooks web --other books can measure against. Edwards' presentation is Both Engaging and deep, and the book contains gems in the subject has continued to be central That in math, the subject of analytic number theory.