Dictionary of Mathematics, the Penguin: Second Edition

by David Nelson, R. David Nelson, John Daintith

Book Overview

The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics takes in all branches of pure and applied mathematics, from algebra to mechanics and from number theory to statistics. Invaluable for students at all levels, it... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140513426
• ISBN13: 9780140513424
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 461 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

Best High School/Basic College Math Dictionary available

Simply put this is the best math dictionary out there for the high school level and for most college students. Maybe there are some more appropriate ones for upper level college math/science students. I have found the descriptions and links in the text very clear and appropriate for most students. I greatly prefer this one over the Oxford math dictionary. I highly recommend it for high school math students (and make sure you keep it until you are done with college). When more detail is needed beyond this text there's always google.

Highly recommended for college mathematics students

As a student studying mathematics, I find it very useul! Packed with 3200 terms and 200 illustrations, It's a great quick reference guide. I found things in this guide that I couldn't find in any other book or guide. Another thing about this reference guide is the lack of poor illustrations and examples. Some things this guide helped me with is PARABOLAS, ELLIPSES, HYPERBOLAS, GAMMA FUNTION, ZETA FUNCTION, FEIGENBAUM NUMBER, THE GREEK ALPHABET, and much more. I thank David Nelson and Penguin Books for such excellent work.

Highly recommended for college mathematics students

As a student studying mathematics, I find it very useul! Packed with 3200 terms and 200 illustrations, It's a great quick reference guide. I found things in this guide that I couldn't find in any other book or guide. Another thing about this reference guide is the lack of poor illustrations and examples. Some things this guide helped me with is PARABOLAS, ELLIPSES, HYPERBOLAS, GAMMA FUNTION, ZETA FUNCTION, FEIGENBAUM NUMBER, THE GREEK ALPHABET, and much more. I thank Penguin Books for such excellent work.

Handy reference

This book is useful for anyone doing maths at college. It summarizes just about everything and is good as a quick reference to refresh your memory on something. (It is also fun just to page through, and look at all the wierd things that mathematicians have come up with). Another advantage is that if you are studying a section in maths that you are finding a little confusing or hard to grasp, the entry in this dictionary will give the important points. But don't expect too much detail, which I think is the main drawback of the book.

Really, really helpful!

Anybody who regularly does math on a more-or-less advanced level will delight in this book; it is exhaustive but managable (the size of a common pocket novel, really) and quite concise. Buyers should realize, of course, that books like these are not meant to learn you calculus or whatever; instead, it is more of a helpful hand when you need it. Now, what was that formula for partial integration, again...?