A Challenge of Numbers: People in the Mathematical Sciences (with Executive Summary)

Type

Book

Authors

Madison ( Madison, Bernard L. )

Hart ( Hart, Therese A. )

ISBN 10

0309041902

ISBN 13

9780309041904

Tags

Study & Teaching, Politics & Government, Schools & Teaching, Mathematics, Political Science

Description

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, and numerically as an information base for policymakers and for those interested in the people in this not very visible, but critical profession. - from Amzon

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