Books by Rozsa Peter
“This book was recommended to me by my inspirational maths teacher at senior school, Mr Bellis, soon after I met calculus for the first time. And I still remember very well the moving dedication at the front of the book: ‘To my brother, Dr Nicolas Politzer, who perished at Colditz in Saxony, 1945’. The author, Rozsa Peter, was a distinguished Hungarian pure mathematician, and she included some fairly advanced ideas, including, for instance, the way in which imaginary numbers can help us understand infinite series. Nonetheless, she was writing for the general public.” Read more...
David Acheson, Mathematician
Interviews where books by Rozsa Peter were recommended
Favourite Maths Books, especially Geometry, recommended by David Acheson
From Thales’s theorem to the Banach-Tarski paradox, Oxford mathematician David Acheson’s book, The Wonder Book of Geometry, is a lively attempt to bring to life geometry—literally, ‘earth measurement’—and make it accessible to the general public. Here, David recommends some of the books that influenced him, “in the order in which I met them, over a timespan of some 60 years.”
