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Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction Timothy Gowers
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

'Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction' by Edward Craig is from the Oxford Very Short Introduction Series which is a wonderful collection of introductory books. Although the two collections approach the history of mathematics from very different perspectives, each offers a strong sense of that history, and the volumes complement one another. I just would like to add two more books on model theory. Read Hawkings "Universe in a Nutshell" where he reveals how bad we all are at visualisation, and Gowers "Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction". The essays span the 1500s to the 1990s, with one entry from 1481 and a good sampling from the mid-16th to the mid-20th century; Wardhaugh prefaces each one with a brief introduction that contextualizes it and suggests its significance to the field. From: Brad DeLong To: UCB Econ 1 Spring 2012 students Subject: The Prologue to Partha Dasgupta's "Economics: A Very Short Introduction"** ---- ##Prologue## ###Becky's world### Becky, who is 10 years old, lives with her parents and an older brother Sam in a suburban town in They can be stated in words, but mathematics is an enormously efficient way to express the structure of a model; more interestingly, for discovering the implications of a model. A brief introduction», Springer. - Alexander Prestel & Charles N. Delzell «Mathematical logic and model theory. I'll become less adverse to the subject. Unfortunately, I haven't read any of them.