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What Is Mathematics?

Summary

What Is Mathematics? is a literary work[1]. What Is Mathematics? ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (22 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • What Is Mathematics? authored Richard Courant[3].
  • What Is Mathematics? authored Herbert Robbins[4].
  • What Is Mathematics?'s instance of is recorded as literary work[5].
  • What Is Mathematics?'s publisher is recorded as Oxford University Press[6].
  • What Is Mathematics?'s genre is recorded as specialized literature[7].
  • What Is Mathematics?'s genre is recorded as popular science literature[8].
  • What Is Mathematics?'s genre is recorded as mathematics[9].
  • What Is Mathematics?'s language of work or name is recorded as English[10].
  • What Is Mathematics?'s publication date is recorded as +1941-00-00T00:00:00Z[11].
  • What Is Mathematics?'s Freebase ID is recorded as /m/027st_t[12].
  • What Is Mathematics?'s Open Library ID is recorded as OL811195W[13].
  • What Is Mathematics?'s has edition or translation is recorded as What is Mathematics?[14].
  • What Is Mathematics?'s has edition or translation is recorded as What is Mathematics?[15].
  • What Is Mathematics?'s main subject is recorded as mathematics[16].
  • What Is Mathematics?'s Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 510[17].
  • What Is Mathematics?'s LibraryThing work ID is recorded as 15348[18].
  • What Is Mathematics?'s title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'What Is Mathematics?'}[19].
  • What Is Mathematics?'s subtitle is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods'}[20].
  • What Is Mathematics?'s OCLC work ID is recorded as 1917746[21].
  • What Is Mathematics?'s Goodreads work ID is recorded as 571471[22].

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Works and Contributions

Authored works include Richard Courant[3], a mathematician[23], 1888–1972[24], of Germany[25], awarded the Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany[26], specialised in mathematical analysis[27] and Herbert Robbins[4], a mathematician[28], 1915–2001[29], of United States[30], awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship[31], specialised in probability theory[32].

Why It Matters

What Is Mathematics? ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (22 views/month).[2] What Is Mathematics? has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] What Is Mathematics? is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]

Related Entities

literary work mathematics Richard Courant

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  20. [22] ↑ . Goodreads. wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [23] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [26] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [27] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [29] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [31] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  10. [32] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [33] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [34] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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