What Is Distance? [microform] : Popular Lectures in Mathematics / Yu A. Shreider
- Bib ID:
- 5380328
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Shreider, Yu A
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED184848
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- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1974
- 81 p.
- Summary:
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Presented is an elaboration of a course given at Moscow University for pupils in ninth and tenth grades. The development through abstraction of the general definition of distance is discussed and a class of spaces in which the notion of distance is defined, the so-called metric spaces, is introduced. The general concept of distance is related to a large number of mathematical phenomena. (Author/MK)
- Notes:
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- Availability: The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL 60637 (Order No. 754987; $4.50).
- Sponsoring Agency: National Science Foundation, Washington, DC.
- Contract Number: NSF-G-8847(MA).
- ERIC Note: For related documents, see SE 030 460-464. Not available in hard copy due to copyright restrictions. Translated and adapted from the Russian edition.
- Educational level discussed: Higher Education.
- Educational level discussed: Secondary Education.
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Chicago Univ., IL. Dept. of Mathematics
- Available From:
- ERIC
- Copyright:
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
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- Published
- Publication date:
- 1974
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