Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics

Author: Krapen
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Publish Date: 2003-12-01
Features: With the continuous deepening of reform and opening-up and the increasing widespread international exchanges, foreign language learning has no longer been limited to the cultivation of language skills. Acquiring professional knowledge and improving professional standards through English, as well as keeping up with the new developments in disciplines, have become the demands of the era. Therefore, there is an urgent need in China for a batch of professional dictionaries compiled in English. The Oxford English Encyclopedic Classification Dictionary Series is a set of reference books organized and compiled by Oxford University Press. The series covers nearly 100 disciplines in social and natural sciences, including linguistics, literature, culture, art, sociology, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, food and nutrition, computer science, etc., all written by highly accomplished and experienced experts. As a batch, we have selected 52 of them to meet the needs of domestic readers. The dictionaries use simple English to accurately explain common professional terms, fully reflecting the rigorous tradition of Oxford University Press in publishing reference books. The series of dictionaries can serve as reference books for students of various majors in colleges and universities, as well as for professional technicians to study professional knowledge and improve their professional English skills. This dictionary is an authoritative and reliable mathematical reference book, an ideal reference for mathematics students and researchers. This is the second edition of the dictionary, with over 1,000 new entries added, covering terms and concepts in all aspects of mathematics, providing accurate definitions and effective examples. The dictionary includes comprehensive entries, covering both pure mathematics and applied mathematics, as well as statistics. It introduces the lives of famous mathematicians, discusses mathematically interesting topics that the public is generally interested in, such as irregular fractals, game theory, and chaos theory, and includes various commonly used mathematical tables.