A Challenge of Numbers: People in the Mathematical Sciences

by Commission on Physical Science, Bernard L. Madison, Committee On The Mathematical Sciences In The Year 2000, et al.

A Challenge of Numbers describes the circumstances and issues centered on people in the mathematical sciences, principally students and teachers at U.S. colleges and universities. A healthy flow of mathematical talent is crucial not only to the future of U.S. mathematics but also as a keystone supporting a technological workforce. Trends in the mathematical sciences' most valuable resource--its people--are presented narratively, graphically,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309041902
• ISBN13: 9780309041904
• Release Date: February 1990
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.3" x 10.0"